Boil Point
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Boil Point is the point forming the west side of the entrance to Retizhe Cove
Retizhe Cove
Retizhe Cove is the 5.8 km wide cove indenting for 6.2 km the south coast of Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. Part of Duse Bay, entered between Boil Point to the west and Garvan Point to the east....

 on the south coast of Trinity Peninsula
Trinity Peninsula
Trinity Peninsula is the extreme northern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, extending northeastward for about from a line connecting Cape Kjellman and Cape Longing. Dating back more than a century, chartmakers used various names for this portion of the Antarctic peninsula, each name having some...

 in Graham Land
Graham Land
Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...

, Antarctica.

The point is named after the settlement of Boil in Northeastern Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

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Location

Boil Point is located at 63°29′46"S 57°26′35"W, which is 6.45 km northwest of View Point
View Point
View Point is an eastern tip of a promontory, 150 m, forming the west side of the entrance to Duse Bay on the south coast of Trinity Peninsula. Discovered by a party under J. Gunnar Andersson of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901-04...

, 7.45 km southeast of Theodolite Hill
Theodolite Hill
Theodolite Hill is a hill, 680 m, with a small rock outcrop at its summit, standing at the southeast corner of a plateau-type mountain 5 nautical miles west of the northwest end of Duse Bay, in the northeast part of Trinity Peninsula...

, 8.45 km south of Camel Nunataks
Camel Nunataks
The Camel Nunataks are two similar rock nunataks rising to , apart and north of View Point, Trinity Peninsula. The name is descriptive and has been in use amongst Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey personnel at Hope Bay since about 1959.-Map:...

 and 5.82 km west-southwest of Garvan Point
Garvan Point
Garvan Point is the point forming the east side of the entrance to Retizhe Cove on the south coast of Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica.The point is named after the settlements of Garvan in Northern and Northeastern Bulgaria.-Location:...

. German-British mapping in 1996.

Map

  • Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.
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