Kubadin Point
Location of Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Topographic map of Smith Island and Livingston Island.
Kubadin Point (Bulgarian: нос Кубадин, ‘Nos Kubadin’ \'nos ku-ba-'din\) is the ice-covered point on the southwest side of the entrance to Linevo Cove on the southeast coast of Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The point is named after the settlement of Kubadin in Southeastern Bulgaria.
Location
Kubadin Point is located at 62°55′42″S 62°21′42″W / 62.92833°S 62.36167°WCoordinates: 62°55′42″S 62°21′42″W / 62.92833°S 62.36167°W, which is 6.9 km southwest of Cape Smith, 10 km northeast of Sredets Point and 2.9 km southeast of Mount Christi. Bulgarian mapping in 2009 and 2010.
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
- Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
References
- Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
- Kubadin Point. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
Smith Island seen from southeast.
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.
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