Somovit Point (Bulgarian: нос Сомовит, ‘Nos Somovit’ \'nos 'so-mo-vit\) is a point on the east coast of Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica projecting 500 m into Bransfield Strait between Kruni Cove and Tsepina Cove.
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It is situated 900 m north-northwest of Batuliya Point and 1.1 km south-southwest of Kitchen Point.
The point is named after the settlement of Somovit in northern Bulgaria.
Location
editSomovit Point is located at 62°23′49″S 59°21′04″W / 62.39694°S 59.35111°W. Bulgarian mapping in 2009.
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
References
edit- Somovit Point. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
- Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
External links
edit- Somovit Point. Copernix satellite image
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.