Vokil Point (Bulgarian: нос Вокил, ‘Nos Vokil’ \'nos vo-'kil\) is a point on the southwest coast of Snow Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica projecting 300 m into Boyd Strait and forming the north side of the entrance to Barutin Cove.
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Snow-Island-location-map.png/220px-Snow-Island-location-map.png)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Livingston-Island-Map-2010.jpg/220px-Livingston-Island-Map-2010.jpg)
The feature is named after the Bulgarian ruling dynasty of Vokil (8th century).
Location
editVokil Point is located at 62°47′33″S 61°31′10″W / 62.79250°S 61.51944°W, which is 2 km south of Esteverena Point and 2 km north of Monroe Point (Bulgarian mapping in 2009).
Map
edit- L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4
References
edit- Vokil Point. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
- Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
External links
edit- Vokil Point. Copernix satellite image
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.