Biser Point

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Location of Velingrad Peninsula on Graham Coast, Antarctic Peninsula. Ant-pen-map-Velingrad.PNG
Location of Velingrad Peninsula on Graham Coast, Antarctic Peninsula.

Biser Point (Bulgarian : нос Бисер, ‘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 Velingrad Peninsula on Graham Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica.

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Bulgarian, is an Indo-European language and a member of the Southern branch of the Slavic language family.

Glacier terminus

A glacier terminus, toe, or snout, is the end of a glacier at any given point in time. Although glaciers seem motionless to the observer, in reality glaciers are in endless motion and the glacier terminus is always either advancing or retreating. The location of the terminus is often directly related to glacier mass balance, which is based on the amount of snowfall which occurs in the accumulation zone of a glacier, as compared to the amount that is melted in the ablation zone. The position of a glacier terminus is also impacted by localized or regional temperature change over time.

Rusalka Glacier glacier in Antarctica

Rusalka Glacier is the 8 km long and 4.6 km wide glacier on Velingrad Peninsula, Graham Coast on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula, situated northeast of Hoek Glacier. It drains the west slopes of Mount Paulcke, and flows northwestwards into Dimitrov Cove in Harrison Passage.

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The point is named after the settlement of Biser in Southern Bulgaria.

Location

Biser Point is located at 65°56′17″S65°00′38″W / 65.93806°S 65.01056°W / -65.93806; -65.01056 Coordinates: 65°56′17″S65°00′38″W / 65.93806°S 65.01056°W / -65.93806; -65.01056 , which is 3.91 km west-southwest of Loqui Point, 7.7 km northwest of Mount Paulcke and 6.8 km east-northeast of Pripek Point.

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Loqui Point headland

Loqui Point is a point at the northern extremity of Velingrad Peninsula on the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. It marks the south side of the entrance to Barilari Bay. This feature was discovered and named "Cap Garcia" by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, under Jean-Baptiste Charcot. At the same time Charcot gave the name "Cap Loqui" to the north cape of Barilari Bay, after a Captain Loqui of the Argentine Navy. The maps of Charcot's French Antarctic Expedition of 1908–10, showed "Cap Garcia" as the north cape of Barilari Bay, and the name Cape Garcia has since become established in that position. Charcot did not use the name "Cap Loqui" on the maps of the 1908–10 expedition, and with his shifting of the name Cape Garcia, this south entrance point to Barilari Bay had remained unnamed. For the sake of historical continuity, the name Loqui Point was accepted for this feature in the 1950s.

Mount Paulcke is a mountain, at least 915 m, standing west of Huitfeldt Point, Barilari Bay, on the west coast of Graham Land. Photographed by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. in 1956-57, and mapped from these photos by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1959 for Wilhelm Paulcke (1873–1949), German pioneer exponent of skiing who, with three companions, demonstrated the possibilities of long distance ski-mountaineering for the first time.

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