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Dragash Point

Coordinates: 62°26′01″S 59°47′44″W / 62.43361°S 59.79556°W / -62.43361; -59.79556
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Location of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Dragash Point (Bulgarian: нос Драгаш, ‘Nos Dragash’ \'nos 'dra-gash\) is the rocky point forming the south extremity of Dee Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.

The point is named after the settlement of Dragash Voyvoda in Northern Bulgaria.

Location

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Dragash Point is located at 62°26′01″S 59°47′44″W / 62.43361°S 59.79556°W / -62.43361; -59.79556, which is 890 m north-northwest of Agüedo Point and 1.06 km northeast of Brusen Point, Greenwich Island. British mapping in 1968, Chilean in 1971, Argentine in 1980, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009.

Maps

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  • 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, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4 (Updated second edition 2010. ISBN 978-954-92032-9-5)

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This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.