Vokil Point
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Location of Snow Island in the South Shetland Islands.
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Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.
Vokil Point (Bulgarian: нос Вокил, ‘Nos Vokil’ \'nos vo-'kil\) is a point on the southwest coast of Snow Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica projecting 300 m into Boyd Strait and forming the north side of the entrance to Barutin Cove.
The feature is named after the Bulgarian ruling dynasty of Vokil (8th century).
Location[]
Vokil Point is located at 62°47′33″S 61°31′10″W / 62.79250°S 61.51944°WCoordinates: 62°47′33″S 61°31′10″W / 62.79250°S 61.51944°W, which is 2 km south of Esteverena Point and 2 km north of Monroe Point (Bulgarian mapping in 2009).
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[]
- Vokil Point. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
- Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
External links[]
- Vokil Point. Copernix satellite image
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.
Categories:
- Headlands of the South Shetland Islands
- Bulgaria and the Antarctic
- Snow Island (South Shetland Islands) geography stubs