Bezmer Point
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Bezmer Point is on the northwest coast of the Varna Peninsula
Varna Peninsula
Varna Peninsula is a roughly rectangular predominantly ice-covered peninsula forming the northeast extremity of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica...

 on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands
South Shetland Islands
The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands, lying about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, with a total area of . By the Antarctic Treaty of 1959, the Islands' sovereignty is neither recognized nor disputed by the signatories and they are free for use by any signatory for...

, Antarctica. The point is situated 9.6 km east-northeast of Siddons Point
Siddons Point
Siddons Point is a point projecting into the middle of the head of Hero Bay on the north coast of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica...

 and 3 km southwest of Kotis Point
Kotis Point
Kotis Point is a point on the northwest coast of Varna Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica forming the south side of the entrance to Eliseyna Cove...

 and 4.9 km west-southwest of Miziya Peak
Miziya Peak
Miziya Peak is the 604 m summit of Vidin Heights on Varna Peninsula, eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica...

. The feature was named after the settlement of Bezmer in Southeastern Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

, in association with the Bulgarian ruler Khan Bezmer
Batbayan of Bulgaria
Batbayan was the eldest son of Khagan Kubrat. After Kubrat, Batbayan ruled from Poltava the lands north of the Black Sea and the Azov Sea....

 (7th Century AD).

Location

The point is located at 62°31′06"S 60°15′09"W (British mapping in 1822 and 1968, Argentine in 1980, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009).

Maps

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