Sadala Point

Location of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands.

Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Sadala Point (Bulgarian: нос Садала, ‘Nos Sadala’ \'nos sa-'da-la\) is a point on the southeast coast of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica projecting 500 m into Bransfield Strait. Situated 2.43 km northeast of the southeast extremity of Robert Point, 2.97 km south-southwest of Batuliya Point and 4.8 km south-southwest of Kitchen Point.

The point is named after King Sadala of Thrace, 87-79 B.C.

Location

Sadala Point is located at 62°25′46.8″S 59°21′48″W / 62.429667°S 59.36333°W / -62.429667; -59.36333Coordinates: 62°25′46.8″S 59°21′48″W / 62.429667°S 59.36333°W / -62.429667; -59.36333. Bulgarian mapping in 2009 and 2010.

Maps

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

Sadala 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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