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Irnik Point

Location of Snow Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Irnik Point (Bulgarian: нос Ирник, ‘Nos Irnik’ \'nos ir-'nik\) is the ice-free southwest entrance point to Brauro Cove on the northwest coast of Snow Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is situated 3.5 km southwest of Cape Timblón, 2 km southwest of Mezdra Point, and 7.4 km northeast of Byewater Point.

The point is named after the legendary Khan Irnik listed in the 8th-century 'Nominalia of the Bulgarian Khans', considered to be the same as one of Attila's sons, Ernak.

Location

Irnik Point is located at 62°43′37″S 61°22′20″W / 62.72694°S 61.37222°W / -62.72694; -61.37222. British mapping in 1968, Bulgarian in 2009.

Map

References

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