Vardun Point ( bg, нос Вардун, ‘Nos Vardun’ \'nos var-'dun\) is the point projecting 1 km into the head of Barilari Bay on

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 Admir ...

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 an ...

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 ...

, formed by an offshoot of Mitino Buttress. The point is named after the settlement of

Vardun Vardun ( bg, Вардун) is a village in Targovishte Municipality, Targovishte Province, Bulgaria. History Until the 1980s, Vardun had over 300 Bulgarian dwellings and several Romani people, gypsies dwellings. It was separated from the vill ...

in Northeastern Bulgaria.

Location

Vardun Point is located at , which is 13.85 km east-southeast of Vorweg Point, 9.17 km southeast of Duyvis Point, and 7.35 km northwest of the highest point of Mitino Buttress. British mapping in 1971.

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 65 64. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1971.

References

Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.
Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)
Vardun Point.
SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer

External links

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