Ivan Alexander Point ( bg, нос Иван Александър, ‘Nos Ivan Aleksandar’ \'nos i-'van a-lek-'san-d&r\) is the low rocky point on the southeast coast of Nelson Island in the

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forming the east side of the entrance to Bononia Cove and the west side of the entrance to Tuida Cove. The point is named after Czar

Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria Ivan Alexander ( bg, Иван Александър, transliterated ''Ivan Aleksandǎr'', ; original spelling: ІѠАНЪ АЛЄѮАНдРЪ), also sometimes Anglicized as John Alexander, ruled as Emperor (''Tsar'') of Bulgaria from 1331 to 1371, ...

, 1331–1371.

Location

Ivan Alexander Point is located at , which is 3.7 km east-northeast of Vidaurre Point, 7.34 km east of

Ross Point Ross Point () is a point forming the southeast side of the entrance to Varvara Cove on the southwest side of Nelson Island in the South Shetland Islands, situated 7.85 km southeast of Harmony Point. The point was charted by DI personnel on t ...

, 8.64 km west-southwest of Duthoit Point, 4.17 km west-southwest of Slavotin Point and 1.73 km north-northeast of Grace Rock. British mapping in 1968.

Maps

South Shetland Islands.
Scale 1:200000 topographic map No. 3373. DOS 610 - W 62 58. Tolworth, UK, 1968.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.

References

Ivan Alexander Point.

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Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.

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basic data
in English)

External links

Ivan Alexander Point.
Adjusted Copernix satellite image Headlands of the South Shetland Islands Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{NelsonIsland-geo-stub