
Starmen Point ( bg, нос Стърмен, ‘Nos Starmen’ \'nos 'st&r-men\) is the point on the west side of the entrance to
Crates Bay on the northeast coast of
Stresher Peninsula,
Graham Coast on the
Antarctic Peninsula
The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martín in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctic ...
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The feature is named after the settlement of Starmen in Northeastern Bulgaria.
Location
Starmen Point is located at , which is 7.23 km east-southeast of
Black Head, 14.3 km south-southwest of
Prospect Point and 4.9 km west-northwest of the headland formed by
Lens Peak. British mapping in 1976.
Maps
* British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 66 64. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1976.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
References
Starmen Point.SCAR
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Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
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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 ...
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basic datain English)
External links
Starmen Point.Copernix satellite image
Bulgaria and the Antarctic
Headlands of Graham Land
Graham Coast
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