- Amadok Point
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Location of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Amadok Point (Nos Amadok \'nos a-ma-'dok\) is a point on the south coast of Livingston Island, Antarctica which projects 400 m into the Bransfield Strait. The point was named after the Thracian King Amadokos, 415-384 BC. It is snow-free in the summer.
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Location
Amadok Point is located at 62°40′45″S 60°53′22″W / 62.67917°S 60.88944°WCoordinates: 62°40′45″S 60°53′22″W / 62.67917°S 60.88944°W, which is 2 km northwest of Elephant Point and 1.8 km southeast of Clark Nunatak.
See also
- Livingston Island
- List of Bulgarian toponyms in Antarctica
- Antarctic Place-names Commission
Map
- L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009.
External links
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.
Categories:- Headlands of Livingston Island
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