# Nedelya Point

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{{Short description|Sharp ice-free point in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica}}
thumb|Location of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands
[[File:Byers Peninsula.jpg|thumb|[Barclay Bay](/source/Barclay_Bay) and [Robbery Beaches](/source/Robbery_Beaches) from near [Basalt Lake](/source/Basalt_Lake) on [Byers Peninsula](/source/Byers_Peninsula), [Livingston Island](/source/Livingston_Island). Visible from left to right are [Lair Point](/source/Lair_Point), [Frederick Rocks](/source/Frederick_Rocks), [Cutler Stack](/source/Cutler_Stack), Nedelya Point and the northern part of [Urvich Wall](/source/Urvich_Wall) in the middle ground, and [Cape Shirreff](/source/Cape_Shirreff) and [Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula](/source/Ioannes_Paulus_II_Peninsula) in the right background.]]
'''Nedelya Point''' ({{langx|bg|нос Неделя}}, ‘Nos Nedelya’ \'nos ne-'de-lya\) is a sharp ice-free point at the southwest extremity of [Ivanov Beach](/source/Ivanov_Beach) on the north coast of [Livingston Island](/source/Livingston_Island) in the [South Shetland Islands](/source/South_Shetland_Islands), [Antarctica](/source/Antarctica), projecting 300 m into [Barclay Bay](/source/Barclay_Bay). It is linked by a chain of rocks to [Cutler Stack](/source/Cutler_Stack), located 310 m to the north-northwest. The feature was visited by a field party from the British base camp [Station P](/source/Station_P) during the summer season 1957/58.<ref>G.J. Hobbs. Map showing the physiography, geological station numbers and the survey routes on Livingston Island. In: [http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/509456/1/The%20geology%20of%20the%20South%20Shetland%20Islands%20-%20IV%20-%20the%20geology%20of%20Livingston%20Island%20-%20BAS%20Scientific%20Report%2047.pdf ''The geology of Livingston Island ''.] Scientific Report No. 47. British Antarctic Survey, 1963. Figure 1</ref> It is part of the [Antarctic Specially Protected Area](/source/Antarctic_Specially_Protected_Area) ''ASPA 126 Byers Peninsula'', situated in one of its two restricted zones.<ref>[http://www.ats.aq/documents/recatt%5Catt591_e.pdf Management Plan for Antarctic Specially Protected Area No. 126 Byers Peninsula.] Measure 4 (2016), ATCM XXXIX Final Report. Santiago, 2016.</ref>

The point is named for [Bulgaria](/source/Bulgaria)n educator [Nedelya Petkova](/source/Nedelya_Petkova) (1826–1894).

==Location==
Nedelya Point is located at {{coord|62|36|55.6|S|60|58|48.5|W|display=inline,title}}, which is 1.8&nbsp;km southwest of [Bilyar Point](/source/Bilyar_Point), 5.37&nbsp;km west-northwest of [Rotch Dome](/source/Rotch_Dome), 1.58&nbsp;km northeast of [Sparadok Point](/source/Sparadok_Point) and 2.86&nbsp;km east of [Lair Point](/source/Lair_Point). British mapping was done in 1968, Chilean in 1971, Argentine in 1980, Spanish in 1993 and Bulgarian in 2005, 2009 and 2017.{{citation needed|date=September 2022}}

==Maps==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131109084308/http://hercules.cedex.es/Ecosistemas/ByersRadar.pdf#55 Península Byers, Isla Livingston.] Mapa topográfico a escala 1:25000. Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército, 1992.
* L.L. Ivanov et al. [Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands](/source/%3Acommons%3AImage%3ALivingston-Greenwich-map.jpg). Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.
* L.L. Ivanov. [http://apcbg.org/image023.jpg 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}}

==Gallery==
<gallery class="center">
Byers Peninsula, eastern part.jpg|Eastern [Byers Peninsula](/source/Byers_Peninsula) in [Livingston Island](/source/Livingston_Island). Visible from left to right are [Lair Hill](/source/Lair_Point), [Robbery Beaches](/source/Robbery_Beaches), [Sparadok Point](/source/Sparadok_Point), [Tsamblak Hill](/source/Tsamblak_Hill) and [Negro Hill](/source/Negro_Hill) in the middle ground; and [Rowe Point](/source/Rowe_Point), [Cutler Stack](/source/Cutler_Stack), [Ivanov Beach](/source/Ivanov_Beach), Nedelya Point, [Urvich Wall](/source/Urvich_Wall) surmounted by the slopes of [Rotch Dome](/source/Rotch_Dome), and [Clark Nunatak](/source/Clark_Nunatak) in the background.
ASPA-126-Byers-Peninsula.png|Topographic map of Byers Peninsula featuring Antarctic Specially Protected Area ''ASPA 126'' and its two restricted zones
Livingston-Island-Map-2010-15.png|Topographic map of Livingston Island and Smith Island
</gallery>

==Notes==
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==References==
* [http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/scar/display_name.cfm?gaz_id=134734 Nedelya Point.] [SCAR](/source/Scientific_Committee_on_Antarctic_Research) [Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica](/source/Composite_Gazetteer_of_Antarctica).
* [http://apcbg.org/gazet-bg.pdf Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.] [Antarctic Place-names Commission](/source/Antarctic_Place-names_Commission). (details in Bulgarian, [http://apcbg.org/gazet.pdf basic data] in English)

==External links==
* [https://copernix.io/#?where=-60.979280693115236,-62.61639147422445,15&?query=&?map_type=hybrid Nedelya Point.] Copernix satellite image

{{Bulgarian-named Antarctic place}}

Category:Headlands of Livingston Island
Category:Bulgaria and the Antarctic

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