Disilitsa Point ( bg, нос Дисилица, ‘Nos Disilitsa’ \'nos di-'si-li-tsa\) is the rocky point on the south side of the entrance to
Bolbabria Cove
Bolbabria Cove ( bg, text=залив Болбабрия, italic=yes, ‘Zaliv Bolbabria’ \'za-liv bol-'ba-bri-ya\) is the 2 km wide cove indenting for 1.85 km the west coast of Liège Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. It ...
and the north side of the entrance to
Vapa Cove on the west coast of
Liège Island
Liège Island (in English also Liege Island) is an island, long and wide, lying immediately northeast of Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago, and separated from Hoseason Island and Christiania Islands to the northeast by Croker Passage. ...
in the
Palmer Archipelago,
Antarctica
Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest contine ...
.
The point is named after Disilitsa Peak in
Pirin Mountain, Bulgaria.
Location
Disilitsa Point is located at , which is 1.65 km north-northeast of
Polezhan Point
Polezhan Point ( bg, нос Полежан, ‘Nos Polezhan’ \'nos po-le-'zhan\) is the rocky point on the west coast of Liège Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica projecting 750 m northwestwards and forming the south side of the entr ...
and 5.9 km southwest of
Bebresh Point
Bebresh Point ( bg, text=нос Бебреш, italic=no, ‘Nos Bebresh’ \'nos 'be-bresh\) is a point projecting 1.3 km from the northwest coast of Liège Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica forming the north side of the entrance t ...
. British mapping in 1980.
Maps
British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 62. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, UK, 1980.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
References
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.Antarctic Place-names Commission
The Antarctic Place-names Commission was established by the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute in 1994, and since 2001 has been a body affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria.
The Commission approves Bulgarian place names in ...
. (details in Bulgarian
basic datain English)
Disilitsa Point.SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
External links
Disilitsa Point.Copernix satellite image
Headlands of the Palmer Archipelago
Bulgaria and the Antarctic
Liège Island
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