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Albatros Point
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'''Albatros Point''' (, 'Nos Albatros' \'nos al-ba-'tros\) is the mostly ice-covered rocky east entrance point of [[Lorna Cove]] on the north coast of [[Trinity Island]] in the [[Palmer Archipelago]], [[Antarctica]] projecting 600 m north-northeastwards. It is "named after the ocean [[fishing trawler]] ''Albatros'' of the Bulgarian company Ocean Fisheries – Burgas whose ships operated in the waters of [[South Georgia Island|South Georgia]], [[Kerguelen Islands|Kerguelen]], the [[South Orkney Islands]], [[South Shetland Islands]] and [[Antarctic Peninsula]] from 1970 to the early 1990s. The Bulgarian fishermen, along with those of the [[Soviet Union]], [[Poland]] and [[East Germany]] are the pioneers of modern Antarctic [[fishing industry]]."<ref>[http://bit.ly/2T96BrN Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica]</ref>
==Location==
Albatros Point is located at , which is 5.35 km southeast of [[Cape Wollaston]], 6.8 km west of [[Cape Neumayer]] and 5.7 km northeast of [[Consecuenia Point]]. British mapping in 1978.
==Maps==
* British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 – W 63 60. Tolworth, UK, 1978.
* [http://www.add.scar.org Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).] Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
==Notes==
==References==
* [http://bit.ly/2T96BrN Albatros Point.] [[Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research|SCAR]] [[Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica]].
[[Category:Headlands of the Palmer Archipelago]]
[[Category:Bulgaria and the Antarctic]]
'''Albatros Point''' (, 'Nos Albatros' \'nos al-ba-'tros\) is the mostly ice-covered rocky east entrance point of [[Lorna Cove]] on the north coast of [[Trinity Island]] in the [[Palmer Archipelago]], [[Antarctica]] projecting 600 m north-northeastwards. It is "named after the ocean [[fishing trawler]] ''Albatros'' of the Bulgarian company Ocean Fisheries – Burgas whose ships operated in the waters of [[South Georgia Island|South Georgia]], [[Kerguelen Islands|Kerguelen]], the [[South Orkney Islands]], [[South Shetland Islands]] and [[Antarctic Peninsula]] from 1970 to the early 1990s. The Bulgarian fishermen, along with those of the [[Soviet Union]], [[Poland]] and [[East Germany]] are the pioneers of modern Antarctic [[fishing industry]]."<ref>[http://bit.ly/2T96BrN Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica]</ref>
==Location==
Albatros Point is located at , which is 5.35 km southeast of [[Cape Wollaston]], 6.8 km west of [[Cape Neumayer]] and 5.7 km northeast of [[Consecuenia Point]]. British mapping in 1978.
==Maps==
* British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 – W 63 60. Tolworth, UK, 1978.
* [http://www.add.scar.org Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).] Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
==Notes==
==References==
* [http://bit.ly/2T96BrN Albatros Point.] [[Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research|SCAR]] [[Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica]].
[[Category:Headlands of the Palmer Archipelago]]
[[Category:Bulgaria and the Antarctic]]
December 26, 2018 at 04:02AM
