Pavlikeni Point

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Location of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands.

Pavlikeni Point from English Strait.

Pavlikeni Point (Nos Pavlikeni \'nos pa-vli-'ke-ni\) projects 600 m from the north coast of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and is snow-free in summer. It is named after the Bulgarian town of Pavlikeni.

Location

The point is located at 62°26′35″S 59°57′56″W / 62.44306°S 59.96556°W / -62.44306; -59.96556Coordinates: 62°26′35″S 59°57′56″W / 62.44306°S 59.96556°W / -62.44306; -59.96556, which is 3.4 km east of Duff Point, 950 m west of Kabile Island, 9.1 km west of Agüedo Point, 1.55 km west-northwest of Miletich Point and 1.13 km north of Hrabar Nunatak (Bulgarian mapping in 2009).

Pavlikeni Point in fiction

Pavlikeni Point features in the recent book Pavlikeni Point: Short Stories by the Bulgarian writer Dimitar Tomov.^[1]

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

↑ Tomov, D. Pavlikeni Point: Short Stories. Sofia: Bulgarian Bestseller Publishing House, 2008. 360 pp. (in Bulgarian) ISBN 978-954-463-109-3

External links

SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

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

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