Jireček Point is the point on the northwest coast of Smith Island

Smith Island (South Shetland Islands)

Smith Island is long and wide, lying west of Deception Island in the South Shetland Islands of the British Antarctic Territory. Surface area ....

 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 forming the south side of the entrance to Cabut Cove

Cabut Cove

Cabut Cove is the 1.08 km wide cove indenting for 1 km the northwest coast of Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and entered between Markeli Point and Jireček Point. Part of its coast is formed by the terminus of Yablanitsa Glacier...

 and the northeast side of the entrance to Bourchier Cove

Bourchier Cove

Bourchier Cove is the 2.35 km wide cove indenting for 860 m the northwest coast of Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica...

. Situated 1.1 km south-southeast of Markeli Point

Markeli Point

Markeli Point is a point on the northwest coast of Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, projecting 1.2 km west-southwestwards into Drake Passage. Situated on the north side of the entrance to Cabut Cove 14.5 km southwest of Cape Smith, 2 km south-southwest of...

 and 2.35 km north-northeast of Villagra Point

Villagra Point

Villagra Point is the point on the northwest coast of Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica forming the south side of the entrance to Bourchier Cove...

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The point is named after the settlements of Jireček

Irechek (village)

Irechek is a village in Kavarna Municipality, Dobrich Province, northeastern Bulgaria.-References:...

 in northeastern and Irechekovo 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 connection with the Czech historian and Bulgarian educator Konstantin Jireček (1854–1918).

Location

Jireček Point is located at 62°56′42.7"S 62°32′39"W. 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