Burya Point

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Location of Trinity Island in the Antarctic Peninsula region.

Burya Point (Bulgarian : нос Буря, ‘Nos Burya’ \'nos 'bu-rya\) is the rocky south entrance point of Saldobisa Cove and north entrance point of Olusha Cove, formed by an offshoot of Ketripor Hill on the northwest coast of Trinity Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica.

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

Saldobisa Cove

Saldobisa Cove is the 2.26 km wide cove indenting for 1.62 km the west coast of Trinity Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. It is entered south of Preker Point and north of Burya Point.

Olusha Cove

Olusha Cove is the 2.7 km wide cove indenting for 1 km the northwest coast of Trinity Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. It is entered north of Consecuencia Point and south of Burya Point, and is surmounted by Ketripor Hill and Tower Hill on the east.

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The point is named after the settlement of Burya in Northern Bulgaria.

Burya (village) is a village in the municipality of Sevlievo, in Gabrovo Province, in northern central Bulgaria.

Northern Bulgaria

Northern Bulgaria, also called Moesia is the northern half of the territory of Bulgaria, located to the north of the main ridge of the Balkan Mountains which conventionally separates the country into a northern and a southern part. Besides the Balkan Mountains, Northern Bulgaria borders the Timok River and Serbia to the west, the Danube River and Romania to the north and the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast to the east.

Location

Burya Point is located at 63°42′05.3″S60°48′02″W / 63.701472°S 60.80056°W / -63.701472; -60.80056 Coordinates: 63°42′05.3″S60°48′02″W / 63.701472°S 60.80056°W / -63.701472; -60.80056 , which is 3.88 km south by east of Cape Wollaston and 2.26 km south-southeast of Preker Point. British mapping in 1978.

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Cape Wollaston is a cape forming the north-west extremity of Trinity Island in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica. The name was originally applied by the 1828-1831 British Chanticleer scientific expedition led by Henry Foster. It was named for William H. Wollaston, commissioner of the Royal Society on the Board of Longitude, 1818–28, which loaned astronomical instruments to Foster's former ship, the Conway, for astronomical and pendulum observations.

Preker Point

Preker Point is the sharp rocky point forming the north side of the entrance to Saldobisa Cove on the west coast of Trinity Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica.

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References

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.


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