Cavarus Point (, ‘Nos Kavar’ \'nos ka-'var\) is the mostly ice-covered point on the south side of the entrance to Zimen Inlet and the north side of the entrance to Brentopara Inlet on

Oscar II Coast Oscar II Coast is that portion of the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Fairweather to the north, and Cape Alexander to the south. Discovered in 1893 by Captain C.A. Larsen, who named it for King Oscar II of Norway and Sweden. ...

Graham Land Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee ...

. It is situated on the east coast of

Churchill Peninsula Churchill Peninsula () is an ice-covered peninsula between Cabinet Inlet and Adie Inlet, extending some in a southeasterly direction from the east coast of Graham Land. The peninsula ends in Cape Alexander separating Oscar II Coast to the north ...

. The feature is named after King

Cavarus Copper coin of Cavarus Cavarus was a Celtic king in Thrace and the last king of Tylis. Under Cavarus, Tylis was destroyed by the Thracians in 212 BC.Polybius Polybius (; , ; ) was a Greek historian of the middle Hellenistic period. He is not ...

, a

Celt The Celts ( , see Names of the Celts#Pronunciation, pronunciation for different usages) or Celtic peoples ( ) were a collection of Indo-European languages, Indo-European peoples. "The Celts, an ancient Indo-European people, reached the apoge ...

ic ruler in

Thrace Thrace (, ; ; ; ) is a geographical and historical region in Southeast Europe roughly corresponding to the province of Thrace in the Roman Empire. Bounded by the Balkan Mountains to the north, the Aegean Sea to the south, and the Black Se ...

(3rd century BC).

Location

Cavarus Point is located at , which is 16.36 km north of

Cape Alexander Cape Alexander () is a cape which forms the south end of Churchill Peninsula and the east side of the entrance to Cabinet Inlet, on the east coast of Graham Land. It was charted by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) and photographe ...

, 12.8 km south of

Slav Point Slav Point (, ‘Nos Slav’ \'nos 'slav\) is the ice-covered point on the north side of the entrance to Zimen Inlet on Oscar II Coast in Graham Land. It is situated on the east coast of Churchill Peninsula. The feature is named after the Bulg ...

, and 36.48 km west-southwest of Veier Head on

Jason Peninsula Jason Peninsula () is a large peninsula on the east coast of Graham Land comprising several mainly snow-covered summits. It rises above the Larsen Ice Shelf and extends from the narrow neck of land east of Medea Dome for , terminating in Cape Fr ...

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mapping in 1974.

Maps

* British Antarctic Territory: Graham Land. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. BAS 250 Series, Sheet SQ 19-20. London, 1974.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.

References

Cavarus Point.

SCAR A scar (or scar tissue) is an area of fibrosis, fibrous tissue that replaces normal skin after an injury. Scars result from the biological process of wound repair in the skin, as well as in other Organ (anatomy), organs, and biological tissue, t ...

Composite Antarctic Gazetteer The Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (CGA) of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) is the authoritative international gazetteer containing all Antarctic toponyms published in national gazetteers, plus basic information about th ...

.
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.

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 (Bulgaria), Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria. The Commis ...

. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)

External links

Cavarus Point.
Copernix satellite image Headlands of Graham Land Oscar II Coast Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{OscarIICoast-geo-stub