Lebed Point

Lebed Point (Bulgarian: нос Лебед, ‘Nos Lebed’ \'nos 'le-bed\) is the rocky point on the south side of the entrance to Istros Bay on the east coast of Clarence Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.

Lebed Point
Location of Lebed Point in Antarctica
Location of Clarence Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Clarence Island seen from north-northeast with (left to right) Lebed Point, Sugarloaf Island and Cape Lloyd.

The point is “named after the settlement of Lebed in Southern Bulgaria, and in connection with the fishing trawler Lebed of the Bulgarian company Ocean Fisheries – Burgas that operated in Antarctic waters off South Georgia in the 1970/71 season. The Bulgarian fishermen, along with those of the Soviet Union, Poland and East Germany are the pioneers of modern Antarctic fishing industry.”[1]

Location

Lebed Point is located at 61°14′57.5″S 54°01′55″W, which is 8.1 km north-northeast of Cape Bowles and 3.2 km south of Sugarloaf Island. British mapping in 1972 and 2009.

Maps

Notes
  1. "SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica". data.aad.gov.au. Retrieved 2018-12-30.
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References


This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.


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