Pavlikeni_Point Knowpia

Pavlikeni Point (Nos Pavlikeni \'nos pa-vli-'ke-ni\) projects 600 m from the north coast of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and is snow-free in summer. It is named after the Bulgarian town of Pavlikeni.

Location of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands.

Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Location edit

The point is located at 62°26′35″S 59°57′56″W / 62.44306°S 59.96556°W / -62.44306; -59.96556, which is 3.4 km east of Duff Point, 950 m west of Kabile Island, 9.1 km west of Agüedo Point, 1.55 km west-northwest of Miletich Point and 1.13 km north of Hrabar Nunatak (Bulgarian mapping in 2009).

Pavlikeni Point in fiction edit

Pavlikeni Point features in the recent book Pavlikeni Point: Short Stories by the Bulgarian writer Dimitar Tomov.^[1]

Maps 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

Notes edit

^ Tomov, D. Pavlikeni Point: Short Stories. Sofia: Bulgarian Bestseller Publishing House, 2008. 360 pp. (in Bulgarian) ISBN 978-954-463-109-3

References edit

Pavlikeni Point. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)

External links edit

Pavlikeni Point. Copernix satellite image

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

[1] Tomov, D. Pavlikeni Point: Short Stories. Sofia: Bulgarian Bestseller Publishing House, 2008. 360 pp. (in Bulgarian) ISBN 978-954-463-109-3

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