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Plas Point ( bg, нос Плас, ‘Nos Plas’ \'nos 'plas\) is the point on the south side of the entrance to Nevsha Cove,
Graham Coast Graham Coast is the portion of the west coast of Graham Land in Antarctic Peninsula, extending 172 km between Cape Bellue to the southwest and Cape Renard to the northeast. The coast is named after Sir James Graham, First Lord of the Admiral ...
on the
Antarctic Peninsula The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martín in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctic ...
. Its shape was enhanced as a result of the adjacent Funk Glacier and
Cadman Glacier Cadman Glacier () is a glacier, wide at its mouth and about long, flowing northwestward into the head of the southern arm of Beascochea Bay south of Plas Point on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula. History The glacier was discovered an ...
retreating during the last decade of 20th century and the first decade of 21st century. The feature is named after Plas Peak in
Pirin Mountain , photo=Pirin-mountains-Bansko.jpg , photo_caption=Pirin scenery in winter , country= Bulgaria, , parent= , geology= granite, gneiss, marble, limestone , area_km2=2585 , range_coordinates = , length_km=80 , length_orientation= north-s ...
, Bulgaria.


Location

Plas Point is located at , which is 11.65 km southeast of Chiloé Point and 6.15 km south-southeast of Holst Point.


Maps


Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.


References


Plas 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 na ...
Composite Antarctic Gazetteer The Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (CGA) of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) is the authoritative international gazetteer containing all Antarctic toponyms published in national gazetteers, plus basic information about t ...
.
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 data
in English)


External links


Plas Point.
Copernix satellite image Bulgaria and the Antarctic Headlands of Graham Land Graham Coast {{GrahamCoast-geo-stub