Dralfa Point (, ‘Nos Dralfa’ \'nos 'dral-fa\) is the point on the south side of the entrance to

Patagonia Bay Patagonia Bay () is a bay between Gourdon Peninsula and Thompson Peninsula on the northeast coast of Anvers Island, Palmer Archipelago in Antarctica. It is entered north of Dralfa Point. The bay's head is fed by Lipen Glacier. Named " Bahia ...

and the north side of the entrance to

Fournier Bay Fournier Bay () is a bay long and wide, indenting the northeast coast of Anvers Island immediately west of Briggs Peninsula and south of Dralfa Point, in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. Its head is fed by Rhesus, Thamyris, Kleptuza and ...

, forming the north extremity of

Thompson Peninsula Thompson Peninsula () is a peninsula 3 nautical miles (6 km) long on the northeast coast of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. It is bounded by Patagonia Bay on the northwest and Fournier Bay on the southeast, and ends in ...

on the northeast coast of

Anvers Island Anvers Island or Antwerp Island or Antwerpen Island or Isla Amberes is a high, mountainous island long, the largest in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica. It was discovered by John Biscoe in 1832 and named in 1898 by the Belgian Antarctic Expe ...

in the

Palmer Archipelago Palmer Archipelago, also known as Antarctic Archipelago, Archipiélago Palmer, Antarktiske Arkipel or Palmer Inseln, is a group of islands off the northwestern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. It extends from Tower Island in the north to Anvers ...

Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean), it contains the geographic South Pole. ...

, 26 km south-southeast of Cape Grönland, 7.07 km south by east of Gourdon Point and 18.6 km northwest of Ryswyck Point. The point is named after the settlement of Dralfa in northeastern

Bulgaria Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey t ...

Location

Dralfa Point is at . British mapping in 1980.

Maps

British Antarctic Territory.
Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 62. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, UK, 1980.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.

References

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)
Dralfa Point.
SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
Punta Gourdon.
SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

External links

Dralfa Point.
Copernix satellite image Headlands of the Palmer Archipelago Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{AnversIsland-geo-stub