Petroff Point ( bg, Петров нос, ‘Petrov Nos’ \pe-'trov 'nos\) is a rocky point on the east coast of

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in the

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projecting northeastwards 1.2 km into

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. Situated 3.85 km northwest of Mitchell Point and 6.8 km southwest of Spallanzani Point. The point is named for the "

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Peter Petroff (1919–2003) who developed the first digital watch."Petroff Point.

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Location

Petroff Point is located at . British mapping in 1980.

Maps

Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
British Antarctic Territory.
Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 62. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1980.
Brabant Island to Argentine Islands.
Scale 1:250000 topographic map. British Antarctic Survey, 2008.

Notes

References

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

External links

Petroff Point.
Copernix satellite image Headlands of the Palmer Archipelago Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{BrabantIsland-geo-stub