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Prestoy Point ( bg, нос Престой, ‘Nos Prestoy’ \'nos pre-'stoy\) is the sharp point projecting 800 m into the head of Barilari Bay on Graham Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica, formed by an offshoot of Mount Genecand. The point is named after the settlement of Prestoy in Northern Bulgaria.


Location

Prestoy Point is located at , which is 11.3 km southeast of Vorweg Point, 14.5 km south-southwest of Duyvis Point and 8.4 km north by west of the summit point of Mount Genecand. British mapping in 1976.


Maps


Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.
British Antarctic Territory.
Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 66 64. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1976.


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 data
in English)
Prestoy Point.
SCAR
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 ...


External links


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