Prestoy Point (, ‘Nos Prestoy’ \'nos pre-'stoy\) is the sharp point projecting 800 m into the head of

Barilari Bay Barilari Bay () is a bay long and wide, between Cape Garcia and Loqui Point on the west coast of Graham Land. The glaciers Birley, Lawrie, Weir and Bilgeri feed the bay. It was discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, and na ...

Graham Coast Graham Coast is the portion of the west coast of Graham Land in Antarctic Peninsula The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martin in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palm ...

Graham Land Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee ...

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, formed by an offshoot of Mount Genecand. The point is named after the settlement of Prestoy in Northern Bulgaria.

Location

Prestoy Point is located at , which is 11.3 km southeast of

Vorweg Point Vorweg Point () is a point northwest of Huitfeldt Point on the southwest side of Barilari Bay, on the west coast of Graham Land. Charted by the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) under Rymill, 1934–37. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Pla ...

, 14.5 km south-southwest of

Duyvis Point Duyvis Point () is the point forming the southeast side of the entrance to Urovene Cove situated south-southeast of Cape Garcia and 2.65 km southeast of Laskar Point, on the southwest coast of Felipe Solo (Obligado) Peninsula, Graham Land in Ant ...

and 8.4 km north by west of the summit point of Mount Genecand. British mapping in 1976.

Maps

Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.
British Antarctic Territory.
Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 66 64. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1976.

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)
Prestoy Point.
SCAR

Composite Antarctic Gazetteer The Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (CGA) of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) is the authoritative international gazetteer containing all Antarctic toponyms published in national gazetteers, plus basic information about th ...

External links

Prestoy Point.
Copernix satellite image Headlands of Graham Land Bulgaria and the Antarctic Graham Coast {{GrahamCoast-geo-stub