Perelik Point

Location of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands.

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

Perelik Point (Bulgarian: нос Перелик, ‘Nos Perelik’ \'nos pe-re-'lik\) is a point on the north side of the entrance to Kozloduy Cove and the southeast side of the entrance to Garnya Cove on the east coast of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.

The point is projecting for 900 m into Nelson Strait, and is situated 1.4 km northwest of Kitchen Point and 1.2 km southeast of Smirnenski Point. Bulgarian early mapping in 2009.

The feature is named after Golyam Perelik Peak in the Rhodope Mountains, southern Bulgaria.

62°22′33″S 59°21′43″W / 62.37583°S 59.36194°W / -62.37583; -59.36194

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

Perelik Point. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)

External links

Perelik Point. Copernix satellite image

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

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