# Rish Point

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{{Short description|Ice-free point in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica}}
thumb|Location of Byers Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands
[[File:ASPA-126-Byers-Peninsula.png|thumb|Topographic map of [Antarctic Specially Protected Area](/source/Antarctic_Specially_Protected_Area) ''ASPA 126 Byers Peninsula'']]
thumb|Topographic map of Livingston Island and Smith Island
'''Rish Point''' ({{langx|bg|нос Риш}}, ‘Nos Rish’ \'nos 'rish\) is an ice-free point projecting 300 m from the south coast of [Livingston Island](/source/Livingston_Island) in the [South Shetland Islands](/source/South_Shetland_Islands), [Antarctica](/source/Antarctica). It is situated at the east extremity of [South Beaches](/source/South_Beaches%2C_Livingston_Island), [Byers Peninsula](/source/Byers_Peninsula), 2.3 km northwest of [Amadok Point](/source/Amadok_Point), 1.3 km southwest of [Clark Nunatak](/source/Clark_Nunatak), and 1 km northeast of [Stackpole Rocks](/source/Stackpole_Rocks). [Juturna Lake](/source/Juturna_Lake) is centred 320 m northeast of the point.

The feature is named after the settlement of [Rish](/source/Rish) in the eastern [Balkan Mountains](/source/Balkan_Mountains), [Bulgaria](/source/Bulgaria).

==Location==
Rish Point is located at {{coord|62|40|21|S|60|55|55|W|display=inline,title}}.  British mapping in 1968, Spanish in 1993, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009.

==Map==
* L.L. Ivanov. [http://apcbg.org/image023.jpg Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080424075823/http://apcbg.org/image023.jpg |date=2008-04-24 }} Scale 1:120000 topographic map.  Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009.  {{ISBN|978-954-92032-6-4}}

==References==
* [http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/scar/display_name.cfm?gaz_id=134743 Rish 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=-60.93162213491819,-62.67145580712832,16&?query=&?map_type=hybrid Rish Point.] Copernix satellite image

{{Bulgarian-named Antarctic place}}

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

{{LivingstonIsland-geo-stub}}

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