Batuliya Point (, ‘Nos Batuliya’ \'nos ba-'tu-li-ya\) is an ice-free tipped point forming the east extremity of

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and the south side of the entrance to Tsepina Cove in the

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. The point, projecting 550 m into

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, is situated 5.4 km northeast of the southeast extremity of Robert Point, 3 km north-northeast of Sadala Point, and 1.9 km south (and a trifle to the east) of Kitchen Point. The feature is named after the settlement of Batuliya in western

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Location

Batuliya Point is located at . Bulgarian mapping 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.

References

Batuliya Point.

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Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.

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. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)

External links

Batuliya Point.
Copernix satellite image Headlands of Robert Island Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{RobertIsland-geo-stub