Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Avitohol Point (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Avitohol Point (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Point (8)
This name originates from Bulgaria. It is part of the Bulgaria Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
The point on the N coast of Livingston Island projecting 700 m into Hero Bay. Situated 3 km NE of Snow Peak, 9.6 km WSW of Siddons Point and 14.6 km SE of Cape Shirreff. Named after the legendary Khan Avitohol listed in the 8th Century 'Nominalia of the Bulgarian Khans,' who laid the foundations of the Bulgarian statehood in 165 AD.
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