Rish Point ( bg, нос Риш, ‘Nos Rish’ \'nos 'rish\) is an ice-free point projecting 300 m from the south coast of

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in the

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. It is situated at the east extremity of

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, 2.3 km northwest of Amadok Point, 1.3 km southwest of Clark Nunatak, and 1 km northeast of Stackpole Rocks.

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is centred 320 m northeast of the point. The feature is named after the settlement of Rish in the eastern

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Location

Rish Point is located at . British mapping in 1968, Spanish in 1993, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 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

Rish Point.

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

External links

Rish Point.
Copernix satellite image Headlands of Livingston Island Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{LivingstonIsland-geo-stub