Mezdra Point ( bg, нос Мездра, ‘Nos Mezdra’ \'nos 'mez-dra\) is the ice-free northeast entrance point of Brauro Cove on the northwest coast of Snow Island in the

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. It is situated 1.41 km southwest of Cape Timblón, and 1.91 km northeast of Irnik Point. The point is named after the town of Mezdra in northwestern

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Location

Mezdra Point is located at . British mapping in 1968, Bulgarian in 2009.

Map

* L.L. Ivanov
Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.
Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009.

References

Mezdra Point.

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Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.
Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)

External links

Mezdra Point.
Copernix satellite image Headlands of the South Shetland Islands Bulgaria and the Antarctic Mezdra {{SnowIsland-geo-stub