Veshka Point ( bg, нос Вешка, ‘Nos Vishka’ \'nos 'vish-ka\) is the point projecting 1.4 km into

Dimitrov Cove Dimitrov Cove ( bg, Димитров залив, Dimitrov zaliv, ) is the 6.8 km wide cove indenting for 4.8 km the northwest coast of Velingrad Peninsula on Graham Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica, which is entered between Pripek Point to the wes ...

on the north coast of

Velingrad Peninsula Velingrad Peninsula ( bg, полуостров Велинград, poluostrov Velingrad, ) is the ice-covered peninsula projecting 22.5 km in northwest direction from Graham Coast on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula. Bounded by Barilari Bay to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 contine ...

, and separating the glacier termini of

Hoek Glacier Hoek Glacier () is a glacier flowing into Dimitrov Cove northeast of Veshka Point on the northwest coast of Velingrad Peninsula on Graham Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica, southward of the Llanquihue Islands. It was charted by the British Graham ...

to the southwest and Rusalka Glacier to the northeast. It is named after Veshka Peak in the

Rhodope Mountains The Rhodopes (; bg, Родопи, ; el, Ροδόπη, ''Rodopi''; tr, Rodoplar) are a mountain range in Southeastern Europe, and the largest by area in Bulgaria, with over 83% of its area in the southern part of the country and the remainder in ...

, Bulgaria.

Location

Veshka Point is located at , which is 4.14 km east-southeast of Pripek Point, 1.7 km south of Camacúa Island and 4 km southwest of

Biser Point Biser Point ( bg, text=нос Бисер, italic=yes, ‘Nos Biser’ \'nos 'bi-ser\) is the narrow rocky point next north of the terminus of Rusalka Glacier and forming the east side of the entrance to Dimitrov Cove on the northwest coast of Veli ...

. British mapping in 1971.

Maps

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

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