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Coordinates: 63°19′04″S 58°44′29″W / 63.31778°S 58.74139°W / -63.31778; -58.74139
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Location of Astrolabe Island in the Antarctic Peninsula region
Astrolabe Island from northwest, with Damga Point in the right foreground

Damga Point (Template:Lang-bg, ‘Nos Damga’ \'nos 'dam-ga\) is the sharp rocky northwest entrance point of Mokren Bight on the west coast of Astrolabe Island in Bransfield Strait, Antarctica. It is “named after Damga Peak in Rila Mountain, Bulgaria.”[1]

Location

Damga Point is located at 63°19′04″S 58°44′29″W / 63.31778°S 58.74139°W / -63.31778; -58.74139, which is 1.58 km south of Raduil Point, 1.2 km southwest of Petleshkov Hill and 3.1 km northwest of Sherrell Point. 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). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.

Notes

  1. ^ Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica

References


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


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