Mezdra Point
Location of Snow Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.
Mezdra Point (Bulgarian: нос Мездра, ‘Nos Mezdra’ \'nos 'mez-dra\) is the ice-free point on the northwest coast of Snow Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica situated 1.41 km southwest of Cape Timblón, and 1.91 km northeast of Irnik Point.
The point is named after the town of Mezdra in northwestern Bulgaria.
Location
Mezdra Point is located at 62°42′46″S 61°21′14″W / 62.71278°S 61.35389°WCoordinates: 62°42′46″S 61°21′14″W / 62.71278°S 61.35389°W. British mapping in 1968, Bulgarian in 2009.
Map
- L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4
References
- Mezdra Point. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
- Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.
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