Kurilo Point

Location of Snow Island in the South Shetland Islands.

Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Kurilo Point (Bulgarian: нос Курило, ‘Nos Kurilo’ \'nos ku-'ri-lo\) is a sharp ice-free point on the southeast coast of Snow Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica projecting 200 m into Bransfield Strait. Situated 3.1 km southwest of President Head and 2.3 km north of Hall Peninsula.

The point is named after the settlement of Kurilo in western Bulgaria.

Location

Kurilo Point is located at 62°44′40″S 61°14′39″W / 62.74444°S 61.24417°W / -62.74444; -61.24417Coordinates: 62°44′40″S 61°14′39″W / 62.74444°S 61.24417°W / -62.74444; -61.24417. 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

References

Kurilo Point. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.

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