
Prestoy Point ( bg, нос Престой, ‘Nos Prestoy’ \'nos pre-'stoy\) is the sharp point projecting 800 m into the head of
Barilari Bay on
Graham Coast in
Graham Land,
Antarctica, 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, 14.5 km south-southwest of
Duyvis Point 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 of Bulgaria.
The Commission approves Bulgarian place names in ...
. (details in Bulgarian
basic datain 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 t ...
External links
Prestoy Point.Copernix satellite image
Headlands of Graham Land
Bulgaria and the Antarctic
Graham Coast
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