Ilyo Point (Bulgarian: нос Ильо, ‘Nos Ilyo’ \'nos 'i-lyo\ is the narrow rocky point projecting 600 m east-northeastwards from the east coast of Clarence Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It forms the south side of the entrance to Smith Cove.
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The point is named after the Bulgarian rebel leader Ilyo Voyvoda (Iliya Popgeorgiev, 1805-1898).
Location
editIlyo Point is located at 61°10′35.7″S 54°01′38″W / 61.176583°S 54.02722°W, which is 4.77 km north of Sugarloaf Island, 1.17 km south of Kakrina Point and 5.45 km south of Cape Lloyd. British mapping in 1972 and 2009.
Maps
edit- British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 61 54. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1972.
- South Shetland Islands: Elephant, Clarence and Gibbs Islands. Scale 1:220000 topographic map. UK Antarctic Place-names Committee, 2009.
- Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
References
edit- Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
- Ilyo Point. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
External links
edit- Ilyo Point. Copernix satellite image
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.