Smolyan Point

{{Short description|Geographic point on the north-western coast of South Bay, Livingston Island}} thumb|Location of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands. [[Image:Smolyan-Livingston.jpg|thumb|Smolyan Point from Bulgarian Beach, with Emona Anchorage in the foreground and Pimpirev Glacier in the background.]] thumb|Topographic map of central-eastern Livingston Island featuring Smolyan Point. thumb|Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. '''Smolyan Point''' (Nos Smolyan \'nos 'smo-lyan\) is located on the north-western coast of South Bay, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica forming the northwest side of the entrance to Emona Anchorage. The ice-covered point shows conspicuous radial crevasses spreading inland and ends up with a 25 m wide and 4 m high rock. The feature was formed as a result of Pimpirev Glacier's retreat in the late 20th century.

Smolyan is the name of a town in the Rhodope Mountains in southern Bulgaria.

==Location== The point is located at {{coord|62|37|27.7|S|60|25|57|W|display=inline,title}}, which is 1.86 km east-northeast of Ereby Point and 3.7 km northwest of Hespérides Point. (Bulgarian mapping in 1996, 2005 and 2009 from a 1995/96 Bulgarian topographic survey).

==Maps== * L.L. Ivanov. Livingston Island: Central-Eastern Region. Scale 1:25000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 1996. * 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. [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}}

==References== * [https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/scar/display_name.cfm?gaz_id=105040 Smolyan Point.] SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer * [http://apcbg.org/gazet-bg.pdf Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.] Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, [http://apcbg.org/gazet.pdf basic data] in English)

==External links== * [https://copernix.io/#?where=-60.43238198280334,-62.62409459748992,17&?query=&?map_type=hybrid Smolyan Point.] Copernix satellite image

Category:Headlands of Livingston Island