
Sevar Point ( bg, нос Севар, ‘Nos Sevar’ \'nos se-'var\) is a point on the south coast of
Byers Peninsula
Byers Peninsula is a mainly ice-free peninsula forming the west end of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. It occupies , borders Ivanov Beach to the northeast and is separated from Rotch Dome on the east by the ridge o ...
on
Livingston Island
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in the
South Shetland Islands
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,
Antarctica
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situated 1.9 km east-southeast of
Devils Point
Devils Point is a point marking the southwest extremity of Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and forming the southeast side of the entrance to Osogovo Bay and the west side of the entrance to Raskuporis ...
, 2.71 km west of
Nikopol Point
Nikopol Point (Nos Nikopol \'nos ni-'ko-pol\) is an ice-free point on the south coast of Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica projecting 650 m east-southeastwards into Bransfield Strait and linked by a sp ...
, and 2.97 km northeast of
Long Rock
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in
Morton Strait
Morton Strait is the -long and -wide strait between Snow Island on the southwest and Rugged Island and Livingston Island on the northeast, in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The Aim Rocks and Long Rock lie in the strait.
The feature w ...
. It is surmounted by
Wasp Hill on the north-northeast,
Sealer Hill on the east-northeast, and forms the east side of the entrance to
Raskuporis Cove
Raskuporis Cove ( bg, залив Раскупорис, zaliv Raskuporis, ) is the 1.77 km wide cove indenting for 700 m the south coast of Byers Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Entered west of Seva ...
.
The point is named after Khan
Sevar of Bulgaria
Sevar ( bg, Севар) was a ruler of Bulgaria in the 8th century.
The Nominalia of the Bulgarian khans states that Sevar belonged to the Dulo clan and ruled for 15 years. According to the chronology developed by Moskov, Sevar would have reign ...
, 738-754 AD.
Location
Sevar Point is located at . British mapping in 1968, Spanish in 1992 and Bulgarian in 2009.
Maps
Península Byers, Isla Livingston.Mapa topográfico a escala 1:25000. Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército, 1992.
* L.L. Ivanov et al.
Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.
* L.L. Ivanov.
Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2010. (First edition 2009. )
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly updated.
* L.L. Ivanov.
Antarctica: Livingston Island and Smith Island. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017.
References
Sevar Point.SCAR
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Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
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Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian
basic datain English)
External links
Sevar Point.Copernix satellite image
Headlands of Livingston Island
Bulgaria and the Antarctic
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