Slav Point ( bg, нос Слав, ‘Nos Slav’ \'nos 'slav\) is the ice-covered point on the north side of the entrance to

Zimen Inlet Zimen Inlet ( bg, Зименски залив, ‘Zimenski Zaliv’ \'zi-men-ski 'za-liv\) is the 12.8 km wide inlet indenting for 9.3 km the east coast of Churchill Peninsula, Oscar II Coast in Graham Land. It is part of Adie Inlet en ...

Oscar II Coast Oscar II Coast is that portion of the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Fairweather to the north, and Cape Alexander to the south. Discovered in 1893 by Captain C.A. Larsen, who named it for King Oscar II of Norway and Sweden. ...

Graham Land Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and ...

. It is situated on the east coast of

Churchill Peninsula Churchill Peninsula () is an ice-covered peninsula between Cabinet Inlet and Adie Inlet, extending some in a southeasterly direction from the east coast of Graham Land. The peninsula ends in Cape Alexander separating Oscar II Coast to the north ...

. The feature is named after the Bulgarian ruler Despot Alexius Slav (12th-13th century).

Location

Slav Point is located at , which is 28.9 km north of

Cape Alexander Cape Alexander () is a cape which forms the south end of Churchill Peninsula and the east side of the entrance to Cabinet Inlet, on the east coast of Graham Land. It was charted by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) and photographe ...

, 33.2 km south of

Gulliver Nunatak Gulliver Nunatak () is a nunatak with a flat, ice-free summit, high, at the north side of Adie Inlet, on the east coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. It was charted by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) and photographed from the air ...

, and 33.7 km west of

Veier Head Veier Head () is a high, snow-covered headland which marks the southernmost point of Jason Peninsula on the east coast of Graham Land. Norwegian explorer Captain C.A. Larsen discovered what he charted as an island in this vicinity on December 9, 1 ...

Jason Peninsula Jason Peninsula () is a large peninsula on the east coast of Graham Land comprising several mainly snow-covered summits. It rises above the Larsen Ice Shelf and extends from the narrow neck of land east of Medea Dome for , terminating in Cape Fr ...

. British mapping in 1974.

Maps

* British Antarctic Territory: Graham Land. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. BAS 250 Series, Sheet SQ 19–20. London, 1974.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.

References

Slav 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 ...

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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

Slav Point.
Copernix satellite image Headlands of Graham Land Oscar II Coast Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{OscarIICoast-geo-stub