Sevar Point

Location of Byers Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.

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

Sevar Point ([нос Севар] Error: {{Lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help), ‘Nos Sevar’ \'nos se-'var\) is a point on the south coast of Byers Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica situated 1.9 km east-southeast of Devils Point, 2.71 km west of Nikopol Point, and 2.97 km northeast of Long Rock in Morton Strait. It is forming the east side of the entrance to Raskuporis Cove.

The point is named after Khan Sevar of Bulgaria, 738-754 AD.

Location

Sevar Point is located at 62°40′32.6″S 61°08′49″W. British mapping in 1968, Spanish in 1992 and Bulgarian in 2009.

Maps

• Península Byers, Isla Livingston. Mapa topográfico a escala 1:25000. Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército, 1992.
• 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

• Sevar Point. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

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