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Sursuvul Point

Sursuvul Point (Bulgarian: нос Сурсувул, ‘Nos Sursuvul’ \'nos sur-su-'vul) is the rocky point on Davis Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica projecting 300 m northwards into Orléans Strait. The point is named after Georgi Sursuvul, fist minister and regent of Bulgaria during the reigns of Czar Simeon the Great and Czar Peter I (9th-10th century).

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Location

Sursuvul Point is located at 64°00′25″S 60°38′55″W, which is 4 km east of Cape Andreas, 12.5 km southeast of Skottsberg Point on Trinity Island, 20 km southwest of Cape Page and 4.4 km north-northwest of Langley Peak. British mapping in 1978.

Maps

  • British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 60. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1978.
  • Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.

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