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Petroff Point

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Location
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Petroff Point ({{lang-bg|Петров нос}}, ‘Petrov Nos’ \\pe-'trov 'nos\\) is a rocky point on the east coast of Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica projecting northeastwards 1.2 km into Hill Bay. Situated 3.85 km northwest of Mitchell Point and 6.8 km southwest of Spallanzani Point.

The point is named for the “Bulgarian-American inventor Peter Petroff (1919–2003) who developed the first digital watch.”^[1]

Location

Petroff Point is located at {{coord|64|11|13|S|62|05|27|W|display=inline,title}}. British mapping in 1980.

Maps

Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
[https://web.archive.org/web/20141209160123/https://www1.data.antarctica.gov.au/aadc/mapcat/display_map.cfm?map_id=3217 British Antarctic Territory.] Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 62. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1980.
[https://web.archive.org/web/20170703122914/https://data.aad.gov.au/database/mapcat/british/brabant_argentine_is_BAS_map13489.jpg Brabant Island to Argentine Islands.] Scale 1:250000 topographic map. British Antarctic Survey, 2008.

Notes

1. ^Petroff Point. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

References

Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)

2 : Headlands of the Palmer Archipelago|Bulgaria and the Antarctic

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