Kurilo Point
Kurilo Point (Bulgarian: нос Курило, ‘Nos Kurilo’ \'nos ku-'ri-lo\) is a sharp ice-free point on the southeast coast of Snow Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica projecting 200 m into Bransfield Strait. Situated 3.1 km southwest of President Head and 2.3 km north of Hall Peninsula.
The point is named after the settlement of Kurilo in western Bulgaria.
Location
[edit]Kurilo Point is located at 62°44′40″S 61°14′39″W / 62.74444°S 61.24417°W. Bulgarian mapping in 2009.
Map
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Kurilo Point. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
- Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
External links
[edit]- Kurilo Point. Copernix satellite image
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.
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