Sabin Point ( bg, нос Сабин, nos Sabin, ) is the ice-covered, rock-tipped northeast entrance point of Golyam Sechko Cove projecting 250 m from the northwest coast of Nelson 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 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 cont ...

. The area was visited by early 19th century

sealers Sealer may refer either to a person or ship engaged in seal hunting, or to a sealant; associated terms include: Seal hunting * Sealer Hill, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica * Sealers' Oven, bread oven of mud and stone built by sealers around 18 ...

.L. Ivanov
General Geography and History of Livingston Island.
In: ''Bulgarian Antarctic Research: A Synthesis''. Eds. C. Pimpirev and N. Chipev. Sofia: St. Kliment Ohridski University Press, 2015. pp. 17–28 The feature is named after the Bulgarian ruler Khan Sabin, 768-777 AD, in association with other Bulgarian historical names in the area.

Location

Sabin Point is located at ,Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.
Antarctic Place-names Commission which is 1.1 km southwest of

Smilets Point Smilets Point ( bg, нос Смилец, ‘Nos Smilets’ \'nos smi-'lets\) is the rocky point on the southwest side of the entrance to Hall Cove, at the northeast end of Lambreva Beach, projecting 500 m north-northwestwards from the northwest c ...

. British mapping of the area in 1968.

Maps

Livingston Island to King George Island.
Scale 1:200000. Admiralty Nautical Chart 1776. Taunton: UK Hydrographic Office, 1968
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). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated

Notes

References

Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.
Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)

External links

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