Raduil Point

Location of Astrolabe Island in the Antarctic Peninsula region.

Astrolabe Island from northwest, with Raduil Point in the foreground.

Raduil Point (Bulgarian: нос Радуил, ‘Nos Raduil’ \'nos ra-du-'il\) is a point forming the northwest extremity of Astrolabe Island in Bransfield Strait off Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica.

The point is named after the settlement of Raduil in southwestern Bulgaria.

Location

Raduil Point is located at 63°18′14″S 58°44′55″W / 63.30389°S 58.74861°W / -63.30389; -58.74861Coordinates: 63°18′14″S 58°44′55″W / 63.30389°S 58.74861°W / -63.30389; -58.74861, which is 4.5 km (2.8 mi) northwest of Sherrell Point and 3.15 km (1.96 mi) west of Drumohar Peak. German-British mapping in 1996.

Maps

Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.

References

Raduil 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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