Location of Rugged Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Topographic map of Livingston Island and Smith Island

Kokalyane Point (Bulgarian: нос Кокаляне, ‘Nos Kokalyane’ \'nos ko-'ka-lya-ne\) is the point on the west coast of Rugged Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica forming the south side of the entrance to Bogomil Cove. Situated 810 m north-northwest of Benson Point, 970 m south of Ugain Point and 2.51 km south of Cape Sheffield.

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

Location

Kokalyane Point is located at 62°38′10.9″S 61°17′47″W / 62.636361°S 61.29639°W / -62.636361; -61.29639, according to Spanish mapping in 1992 and Bulgarian mapping in 2009.

Maps

  • Península Byers, Isla Livingston. Mapa topográfico a escala 1:25000. Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército, 1992.
  • 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
  • Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
  • L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Smith Island. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017. ISBN 978-619-90008-3-0

References


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


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