Dragash Point (Bulgarian: нос Драгаш, ‘Nos Dragash’ \'nos 'dra-gash\) is the rocky point forming the south extremity of Dee Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.
The point is named after the settlement of Dragash Voyvoda in Northern Bulgaria.
Location
[edit]Dragash Point is located at 62°26′01″S 59°47′44″W / 62.43361°S 59.79556°W, which is 890 m north-northwest of Agüedo Point and 1.06 km northeast of Brusen Point, Greenwich Island. British mapping in 1968, Chilean in 1971, Argentine in 1980, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009.
Maps
[edit]- L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.
- 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 (Updated second edition 2010. ISBN 978-954-92032-9-5)
References
[edit]- Dragash Point. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
- Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
External links
[edit]- Dragash Point. Copernix satellite image
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.