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Karposh Point (Bulgarian: нос Карпош, ‘Nos Karposh’ \'nos 'kar-posh\) is the ice-free point on the north coast of Snow Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is projecting 500 m into Morton Strait, and is situated 2.3 km west of the extreme northeast point of President Head, 2.5 km east-southeast of Gostun Point, and 4.8 km east-southeast of Cape Timblón. Calliope Beach extends for 2.9 km eastwards from the point.

The point is "named after Karposh, leader of a Bulgarian uprising in 1689 AD."[1]

Location

Karposh Point is located at 62°43′23″S 61°15′00″W. British mapping in 1968, Bulgarian in 2009.

Map

• 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

Notes

References

• Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)

External links

• Karposh Point. Adjusted Copernix satellite image

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

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Der Karposh Point (englisch; bulgarisch нос Карпош .mw-parser-output .Latn{font-family:"Akzidenz Grotesk","Arial","Avant Garde Gothic","Calibri","Futura","Geneva","Gill Sans","Helvetica","Lucida Grande","Lucida Sans Unicode","Lucida Grande","Stone Sans","Tahoma","Trebuchet","Univers","Verdana"}nos Karposch) ist eine unvereiste Landspitze an der Nordküste von Snow Island im Archipel der Südlichen Shetlandinseln. Sie liegt 2,3 km westlich des nordöstlichen Ausläufers des President Head, 2,5 km ostsüdöstlich des Gostun Point und 4,8 km ostsüdöstlich des Kap Timblón.

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