Nedelya Point (, ‘Nos Nedelya’ \'nos ne-'de-lya\) is a sharp ice-free point at the southwest extremity of Ivanov Beach on the north coast of

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in the

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, projecting 300 m into Barclay Bay. It is linked by a chain of rocks to Cutler Stack, located 310 m to the north-northwest. The feature was visited by a field party from the British base camp

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during the summer season 1957/58. It is part of the

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''ASPA 126 Byers Peninsula'', situated in one of its two restricted zones.Management Plan for Antarctic Specially Protected Area No. 126 Byers Peninsula.
Measure 4 (2016), ATCM XXXIX Final Report. Santiago, 2016. The point is named for

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n educator Nedelya Petkova (1826–1894).

Location

Nedelya Point is located at , which is 1.8 km southwest of Bilyar Point, 5.37 km west-northwest of Rotch Dome, 1.58 km northeast of Sparadok Point and 2.86 km east of Lair Point. British mapping was done in 1968, Chilean in 1971, Argentine in 1980, Spanish in 1993 and Bulgarian in 2005, 2009 and 2017.

Maps

Península Byers, Isla Livingston.
Mapa topográfico a escala 1:25000. Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército, 1992. * L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005. * L.L. Ivanov
Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands
Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009.

Gallery

Byers Peninsula, eastern part.jpg, Eastern

Byers Peninsula Byers Peninsula is a mainly ice-free peninsula forming the west end of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. It occupies , borders Ivanov Beach to the northeast and is separated from Rotch Dome on the east by the ridge ...

. Visible from left to right are Lair Hill, Robbery Beaches, Sparadok Point, Tsamblak Hill and Negro Hill in the middle ground; and Rowe Point, Cutler Stack, Ivanov Beach, Nedelya Point, Urvich Wall surmounted by the slopes of Rotch Dome, and Clark Nunatak in the background. ASPA-126-Byers-Peninsula.png, Topographic map of Byers Peninsula featuring Antarctic Specially Protected Area ''ASPA 126'' and its two restricted zones Livingston-Island-Map-2010-15.png, Topographic map of Livingston Island and Smith Island

Notes

References

Nedelya Point.

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.
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.

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. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)

External links

Nedelya Point.
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