
Kamhi Point (, ‘Nos Kamhi’ \'nos kam-'hi\) is the sharp rocky point on the northwest coast of
Alexander Island
Alexander Island, which is also known as Alexander I Island, Alexander I Land, Alexander Land, Alexander I Archipelago, and Zemlja Alexandra I, is the largest island of Antarctica. It lies in the Bellingshausen Sea west of Palmer Land, Antarcti ...
in
Antarctica
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projecting 450 m westwards into
Lazarev Bay
Lazarev Bay is a rectangular bay, long and wide, which separates Alexander Island from Rothschild Island and is bounded on the south side by the Wilkins Ice Shelf, which joins the east portion of Rothschild Island and the west portion of Alexande ...
south of the
terminus
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Ancient Rome
*Terminus (god), a Roman deity who protected boundary markers
Transport
*Terminal train station or terminus, a railway station serving as an end destination
*Bus terminus, a bus station serving as an end des ...
of
Oselna Glacier
Oselna Glacier (, ) is the 4 km long in east-west direction and 1 km wide glacier on the west side of Havre Mountains in northern Alexander Island, Antarctica. The glacier is situated south of Pipkov Glacier and north of Manolov Glac ...
.
The feature is named after
Rafael Moshe Kamhi (1870-1970), a leader of the
Bulgarian liberation movement in
Macedonia
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* North Macedonia, a country in southeastern Europe, known until 2019 as the Republic of Macedonia
* Macedonia (ancient kingdom), a kingdom in Greek antiquity
* Macedonia (Greece), a former administr ...
.
Location
Kamhi Point is located at , which is 19.17 km south-southeast of
Cape Vostok, 8.8 km southeast of
Buneva Point, 6.17 km northwest of
Goleminov Point and 1 km northeast of
Umber Island. British mapping in 1991.
Maps
* British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Sheet SR19-20/5. APC UK, 1991
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated
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 datain English)
Kamhi Point.SCAR
Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
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External links
Kamhi Point.Copernix satellite image
Headlands of Alexander Island
Bulgaria and the Antarctic
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