Simitli Point

Location of Rugged Island in the South Shetland Islands.

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

Simitli Point (Bulgarian: 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 62°37′10.3″S 61°14′33″W / 62.619528°S 61.24250°W / -62.619528; -61.24250Coordinates: 62°37′10.3″S 61°14′33″W / 62.619528°S 61.24250°W / -62.619528; -61.24250. British mapping in 1968, Spanish in 1992 and Bulgarian in 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

• Simitli Point. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

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