Pavlikeni Point projects 600 m from the north coast of Greenwich 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 and is snow-free in summer. It is named after the Bulgarian town of Pavlikeni

Pavlikeni

Pavlikeni is a town in Veliko Tarnovo Province, Northern Bulgaria, about 41 kilometers away from the city of Veliko Tarnovo. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Pavlikeni Municipality...

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Location

The point is located at 62°26′35"S 59°57′56"W which is 3.4 km east of Duff Point

Duff Point

Duff Point is a point forming the west extremity of Greenwich Island, in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The name Duffs Straits was applied to McFarlane Strait by James Weddell in 1820-23, after Captain Norwich Duff under whom Weddell served in HMS Espoir in 1814...

, 950 m west of Kabile Island

Kabile Island

Kabile Island is an Antarctic island extending in south-north direction and wide, situated off the north coast of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica...

, 9.1 km west of Agüedo Point

Agüedo Point

Agüedo Point is the point forming the north extremity of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and the west side of the entrance to Guayaquil Bay...

, 1.55 km west-northwest of Miletich Point

Miletich Point

Miletich Point is the rocky point forming the west side of the entrance to Haskovo Cove in Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands in Antarctica...

 and 1.13 km north of Hrabar Nunatak

Hrabar Nunatak

Hrabar Nunatak is a 160m rocky peak on the north coast of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, and overlooking Yakoruda Glacier to the south...

 (Bulgarian mapping in 2009).

Pavlikeni Point in fiction

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

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

External links

• SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.