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Kurilo Point

Coordinates: 62°44′40″S 61°14′39″W / 62.74444°S 61.24417°W / -62.74444; -61.24417
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Location of Snow Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Kurilo Point (Bulgarian: нос Курило, ‘Nos Kurilo’ \'nos ku-'ri-lo\) is a sharp ice-free point on the southeast coast of Snow Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica projecting 200 m into Bransfield Strait. Situated 3.1 km southwest of President Head and 2.3 km north of Hall Peninsula.

The point is named after the settlement of Kurilo in western Bulgaria.

Location

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Kurilo Point is located at 62°44′40″S 61°14′39″W / 62.74444°S 61.24417°W / -62.74444; -61.24417. Bulgarian mapping in 2009.

Map

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  • L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4

References

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This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.