Samuel Point

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

Samuel Point (on the right) and Brunow Bay from Catalunyan Saddle in Tangra Mountains, with Bransfield Strait and Antarctic Peninsula in the background.

Samuel Point (Nos Samuil \'nos sa-mu-'il\) is on the coast of Bransfield Strait forming the southwest side of the entrance to Brunow Bay on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The point is situated on the east side of Rozhen Peninsula, surmounted by Needle Peak (370 m), a conspicuous offshoot of Friesland Ridge.

The point is named after Czar Samuil of Bulgaria, 980-1014 AD.

Location

The point is located at 62°43′42″S 60°08′52″W / 62.72833°S 60.14778°W / -62.72833; -60.14778Coordinates: 62°43′42″S 60°08′52″W / 62.72833°S 60.14778°W / -62.72833; -60.14778, which is 9.3 km east-northeast of Botev Point, and 5.55 km west-southwest of Aytos Point (UK Directorate of Overseas Surveys mapping in 1968, and Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009).

Maps

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, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4

References

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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