Simitli Point

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

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Simitli Point ({{langx|bg|нос Симитли}}, ‘Nos Simitli’ \'nos 'si-mit-li\) is a point on the north coast of Rugged Island off the west coast of Byers Peninsula of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica forming the east side of the entrance to Timok Cove. Situated 400 m west-southwest of Ivan Vladislav Point, and 2.91 km east-southeast of Cape Sheffield, and 3.61 km south-southwest of Start Point, Livingston Island.

The point is named after the town of Simitli in southwestern Bulgaria.

Location

Simitli Point is located at {{coord|62|37|10.3|S|61|14|33|W|display=inline,title}}. British mapping in 1968, Spanish in 1992 and Bulgarian in 2009.

Maps

[https://web.archive.org/web/20131109084308/http://hercules.cedex.es/Ecosistemas/ByersRadar.pdf#55 Península Byers, Isla Livingston.] Mapa topográfico a escala 1:25000. Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército, 1992.
L.L. Ivanov. [http://apcbg.org/image023.jpg 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

[http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/scar/display_name.cfm?gaz_id=134747 Simitli 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=-61.24265020370485,-62.62179762739618,16&?query=&?map_type=hybrid Simitli Point.] Copernix satellite image

{{Bulgarian-named Antarctic place}}

Category:Headlands of the South Shetland Islands

Category:Bulgaria and the Antarctic

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