Pazardzhik Point (, ‘Nos Pazardzhik’ \'nos 'pa-zar-dzhik\) is a point on the southeast coast of Snow Island in the

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 ...

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situated 2.1 km east-northeast of

Cape Conway Cape Conway is the rounded low and ice-free tipped cape forming the south extremity of Snow Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is a south entrance point for Boyd Strait. ''Tooth Rock'' () rising to and lying to the south is ...

and 9.9 km southwest of

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. Snow-free in summer. The point is named after the city of

Pazardzhik Pazardzhik ( ) is a city situated along the banks of the Maritsa river, southern Bulgaria. It is the centre of Pazardzhik Province and Pazardzhik Municipality. It is located in the Upper Thracian Plain and in the Pazardzhik-Plovdiv Field, a ...

in southern

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Location

Pazardzhik Point is located at . Bulgarian mapping 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

Pazardzhik Point.

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.
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.

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. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)

External links

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