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Lebed Point ( bg, нос Лебед, ‘Nos Lebed’ \'nos 'le-bed\) is the rocky point on the south side of the entrance to
Istros Bay
Istros Bay ( bg, залив Истрос, zaliv Istros, ) is the 3.2 km wide bay indenting for 1.4 km the east coast of Clarence Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is entered north of Lebed Point and south of Sugarloaf Island ...
on the east coast of
Clarence Island in the
South Shetland Islands
The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands with a total area of . They lie about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, and between southwest of the nearest point of the South Orkney Islands. By the Antarctic Treaty of 1 ...
,
Antarctica
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.
The point is “named after the settlement of
Lebed in Southern Bulgaria, and in connection with the
fishing trawler
A fishing trawler is a commercial fishing vessel designed to operate fishing trawls. Trawling is a method of fishing that involves actively dragging or pulling a trawl through the water behind one or more trawlers. Trawls are fishing nets th ...
''Lebed'' of the Bulgarian company
Ocean Fisheries – Burgas
Ocean Fisheries – Burgas Co was a Bulgarian company founded in 1964 and based in the Black Sea port city of Burgas, whose ocean fishing trawler, trawlers and factory ship, freezer vessels undertook fishing voyages in the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, ...
that operated in Antarctic waters off
South Georgia in the 1970/71 season. The Bulgarian fishermen, along with those of the
Soviet Union
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,
Poland
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and
East Germany
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are the pioneers of modern Antarctic
fishing industry
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.”
Location
Lebed Point is located at , which is 8.1 km north-northeast of
Cape Bowles
Cape Bowles is a cape forming the southern extremity of Clarence Island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. It was named in 1820 by Edward Bransfield, Master, Royal Navy, while exploring the islands in the brig ''Williams''.
Important ...
and 3.2 km south of
Sugarloaf Island. British mapping in 1972 and 2009.
Maps
British Antarctic Territory.Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 61 54. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1972.
South Shetland Islands: Elephant, Clarence and Gibbs Islands.Scale 1:220000 topographic map. UK Antarctic Place-names Committee, 2009.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
Notes
References
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian
basic datain English)
Lebed Point.SCAR
A scar (or scar tissue) is an area of fibrous tissue that replaces normal skin after an injury. Scars result from the biological process of wound repair in the skin, as well as in other organs, and tissues of the body. Thus, scarring is a n ...
Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
External links
Lebed Point.Copernix satellite image
Headlands of the South Shetland Islands
Ocean Fisheries – Burgas Co
Bulgaria and the Antarctic
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