Kranevo Point

Location of Tower Island in the Antarctic Peninsula region.

Kranevo Point (Bulgarian: нос Кранево, ‘Nos Kranevo’ \'nos 'kra-ne-vo\) is a rocky point on the northwest coast of Tower Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica forming the south side of the entrance to Mindya Cove. Situated 2.4 km southwest of Cape Leguillou, 3.5 km north of Ustina Point and 5.8 km north-northwest of Peña Point (the south extremity of the island).

The point is named after the settlement of Kranevo in northeastern Bulgaria.

Location

Kranevo Point is located at 63°33′31″S 59°52′47″W / 63.55861°S 59.87972°W / -63.55861; -59.87972Coordinates: 63°33′31″S 59°52′47″W / 63.55861°S 59.87972°W / -63.55861; -59.87972. German-British mapping in 1996.

Map

Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.

References

Kranevo Point. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.

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