Dometa Point

{{short description|Headland in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica}}

File:Byers Peninsula, Camp Byers.jpg on Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island, with Camp Byers in the foreground, and left to right Tsamblak Hill, Negro Hill and Dometa Point in the background]]

File:ASPA-126-Byers-Peninsula.png ASPA 126 Byers Peninsula]]

File:Livingston-Island-Map-2010-15.png

Dometa Point ({{langx|bg|нос Домета}}, ‘Nos Dometa’ \'nos do-'me-ta\) is a point in the middle part of South Beaches on Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is situated 4.3 km west-northwest of Rish Point, 1.2 km southwest of Negro Hill, 4.6 km southeast of Chester Cone, and 4.2 km east-northeast of Nikopol Point. Fontus Lake is centred 600 m northeast of the point.

The feature is named after Dometa, governor of the southwestern Bulgarian province of Kutmichevitsa hosting the mission of St. Kliment Ohridski assigned by Czar Boris I of Bulgaria (9th Century AD).

Location

Dometa Point is located at {{coord|62|39|44|S|61|00|51|W|display=inline,title}} (British mapping in 1968, detailed Spanish mapping in 1992, and Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009).

Map

[https://web.archive.org/web/20131109084308/http://hercules.cedex.es/Ecosistemas/ByersRadar.pdf#55#55 Península Byers, Isla Livingston.] Mapa topográfico a escala 1:25000. Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército, 1992.
L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.
L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2010. {{ISBN|978-954-92032-9-5}} (First edition 2009. {{ISBN|978-954-92032-6-4}})
[http://www.add.scar.org Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).] Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Smith Island. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017. {{ISBN|978-619-90008-3-0}}

References

[http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/scar/display_name.cfm?gaz_id=134703 Dometa Point.] SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
[http://apcbg.org/gazet-bg.pdf Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.] Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, [http://apcbg.org/gazet.pdf basic data] in English)

External links

[https://copernix.io/#?where=-61.01592652911375,-62.66042849552113,15&?query=&?map_type=hybrid Dometa Point.] Copernix satellite image

Category:Headlands of Livingston Island

Category:Bulgaria and the Antarctic