Radev Point

Location of Rugged Island in the South Shetland Islands.

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

Radev Point (Bulgarian: Радев нос, ‘Radev Nos’ \'ra-dev 'nos\) is a point in the southeast extremity of Rugged Island off the west coast of Byers Peninsula of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is situated 4.5 km east of Benson Point, 1.05 km southwest of Vund Point, and 2.62 km west by south of Laager Point, Livingston Island.

The point is named after the prominent Bulgarian historiographer, writer and diplomat Simeon Radev (1879 – 1967).^[1]

Location

Radev Point is located at 62°38′24.9″S 61°12′06″W / 62.640250°S 61.20167°W / -62.640250; -61.20167Coordinates: 62°38′24.9″S 61°12′06″W / 62.640250°S 61.20167°W / -62.640250; -61.20167. British mapping in 1968, Spanish in 1992 and Bulgarian in 2005 and 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

Radev Point. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

↑ Справочник на българските географски имена в Антарктика (Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer)

See also

List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands
Islands of Antarctica

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

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