Iratais Point

Iratais Point (Nos Iratais 'nos i-ra-'ta-is) is a point forming both the south extremity and the vertex of the V-shaped Desolation Island situated in the entrance to Hero Bay, Livingston Island, Antarctica. Separated from Miladinovi Islets to the south by Neck or Nothing Passage. British mapping in 1968. Named after Kavhan (hereditary viceroy function) Iratais, governor of the southern Bulgarian Black Sea region under Khan Krum the Horrible (9th century AD).

Map

* L.L. Ivanov et al, of Bulgaria, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sofia, 2005

References

* [http://www3.pnra.it/SCAR_GAZE SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer]