Lakatnik Point (, ‘Nos Lakatnik’ \'nos la-'kat-nik\) is a point on the northwest coast of Smith Island,

South Shetland Islands The South Shetland Islands are a group of List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands, Antarctic islands located in the Drake Passage with a total area of . They lie about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, and between southwest of the n ...

situated 1.6 km north-northeast of Lista Point, 11 km north-northeast of

Cape James Cape James is a cape which forms the southern tip of Smith Island (South Shetland Islands), Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The name appears on a chart based upon the 1828–1831 British naval expedition under Captain Hen ...

, 2.66 km southwest of

Garmen Point Garmen Point (, ‘Nos Garmen’ \'nos 'g&r-men\) is a point on the northwest coast of Smith Island, South Shetland Islands situated north-northeast of Cape James, south-southwest of Markeli Point and southwest of Cape Smith. Formed by an o ...

and 22 km southwest of

Cape Smith Cape Smith is a cape forming the north end of Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surr ...

. Formed by an offshoot of Neofit Peak. Bulgarian early mapping in 2008. Named after the settlement of

Lakatnik Lakatnik ( ) is a small village located in Svoge Municipality, near the Lakatnik rocks. The village has a train station A train station, railroad station, or railway station is a railway facility where trains stop to load or unload pass ...

in western

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 ...

Maps

Chart of South Shetland including Coronation Island, &c.
from the exploration of the sloop Dove in the years 1821 and 1822 by George Powell Commander of the same. Scale ca. 1:200000. London: Laurie, 1822. * L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2010. (First edition 2009. )
South Shetland Islands: Smith and Low Islands.
Scale 1:150000 topographic map No. 13677. British Antarctic Survey, 2009.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated. * L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Smith Island. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017.

References

Lakatnik Point.
SCAR

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

Lakatnik Point.
Copernix satellite image Headlands of Smith Island (South Shetland Islands) Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{SmithIsland-geo-stub