Lebed Point (, ‘Nos Lebed’ \'nos 'le-bed\) is the rocky point on the south side of the entrance to

Istros Bay Istros Bay (, ) is the 3.2 km wide bay indenting for 1.4 km the east coast of Clarence Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is entered north of Lebed Point and south of Sugarloaf Island, and has its head fed by Highton Glacier. ...

on the east coast of Clarence Island in the

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. The point is “named after the settlement of Lebed in Southern Bulgaria, and in connection with the

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''Lebed'' of the Bulgarian company

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that operated in Antarctic waters off

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in the 1970/71 season. The Bulgarian fishermen, along with those of the

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and

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are the pioneers of modern Antarctic

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.”

Location

Lebed Point is located at , which is 8.1 km north-northeast of

Cape Bowles Cape Bowles is a cape forming the southern extremity of Clarence Island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. It was named in 1820 by Edward Bransfield, Master, Royal Navy, while exploring the islands in the brig ''Williams''. Important ...

and 3.2 km south of Sugarloaf Island. British mapping in 1972 and 2009.

Maps

British Antarctic Territory.
Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 61 54. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1972.
South Shetland Islands: Elephant, Clarence and Gibbs Islands.
Scale 1:220000 topographic map. UK Antarctic Place-names Committee, 2009.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.

Notes

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)
Lebed Point.

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External links

Lebed Point.
Copernix satellite image Headlands of the South Shetland Islands Ocean Fisheries – Burgas Co Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{ClarenceIsland-geo-stub