Botev Point (, ) is the south extremity of both Rozhen Peninsula and

Livingston Island Livingston Island (Russian name ''Smolensk'', ) is an Antarctic island in the Southern Ocean, part of the South Shetland Islands, South Shetlands Archipelago, a group of List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands, Antarctic islands north of the ...

in the

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formed by an offshoot of

Botev Peak Botev Peak ( ) is, at above sea level, the highest peak of the Balkan Mountains in southeastern Europe. It is located close to the geographic centre of Bulgaria, and is part of the Central Balkan National Park. Until 1950, when it was renamed ...

in the Veleka Ridge of

Tangra Mountains Tangra Mountains (in Bulgarian ''Тангра планина'', 'Tangra planina' \'tan-gra pla-ni-'na\) () form the principal mountain range of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The range had been nameless until ...

. The feature is named after Hristo Botev (1848–1876), poet and leader of the Bulgarian liberation movement.

Location

The point is located at which is 1.5 km east-southeast of Barnard Point, 5.1 km west-southwest of Gela Point and 9.29 km west-southwest of Samuel Point. The point was mapped in 1968 by the UK

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, and in 2005 and 2009 by Bulgaria.

Maps

* L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005. * L.L. Ivanov
Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands
Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009.

References

Botev Point.
SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.

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. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)

External links

Botev Point.
Copernix satellite image Headlands of Livingston Island Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{LivingstonIsland-geo-stub