Chiprovtsi Point

Chiprovtsi Point

Location of Rugged Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Geography
Location	Antarctica
Coordinates	62°36′56″S 61°15′49″W / 62.61556°S 61.26361°W / -62.61556; -61.26361
Archipelago	South Shetland Islands
Length	0.4 km (0.25 mi)
Country
Antarctica
Demographics
Population	0
Additional information
Administered under the Antarctic Treaty System

Chiprovtsi Point (Bulgarian: нос Чипровци, ‘Nos Chiprovtsi’ \'nos 'chi-prov-tsi\) is a point projecting 400 m (440 yd) from the north coast of Rugged Island off the west coast of Byers Peninsula of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, and forming the east side of the entrance to Nishava Cove. Situated 1.2 km (0.75 mi) west of Ivan Vladislav Point, and 1.7 km (1.1 mi) east-southeast of Cape Sheffield. Extended further 400 m (440 yd) northwestwards by the group of Chiprovtsi Islets named in association with the point.

The point is named after the town of Chiprovtsi in northwestern Bulgaria.

Location

Chiprovtsi Point is located at 62°36′56″S 61°15′49″W / 62.61556°S 61.26361°W / -62.61556; -61.26361. British mapping in 1968, Spanish in 1993 and Bulgarian in 2009.

See also

• Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
• List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S
• SCAR
• Territorial claims in Antarctica

Map

• 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

External links

• Chiprovtsi Point.

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

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