Gega Point is a point on the west coast of Astrolabe Island

Astrolabe Island

Astrolabe Island is an island long, lying in the Bransfield Strait northwest of Cape Ducorps, Trinity Peninsula. It was discovered by the French expedition, 1837–40, under Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville, and named by him for his chief expedition ship, the Astrolabe....

 in Bransfield Strait

Bransfield Strait

Bransfield Strait is a body of water about wide extending for in a general northeast-southwest direction between the South Shetland Islands and Antarctic Peninsula. It was named in about 1825 by James Weddell, Master, Royal Navy, for Edward Bransfield, Master, RN, who charted the South Shetland...

 off 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...

, Antarctica forming the southeast side of the entrance to Mokren Bight

Mokren Bight

Mokren Bight is a 2 km wide embayment indenting for 850 m the west coast of Astrolabe Island in Bransfield Strait off Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica. Entered north of Gega Point.The bight is named after the settlement of Mokren in southeastern Bulgaria....

. Situated 1.15 km northwest of Sherrell Point

Sherrell Point

Sherrell Point is a point at the south end of Astrolabe Island, off Trinity Peninsula. Situated 4.5 km southeast of Raduil Point and 2.28 km southwest of Rogach Peak. Named for Frederick W. Sherrell, surveyor and geologist in this area with the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey...

 and 3.35 km southeast of Raduil Point

Raduil Point

Raduil Point is a point forming the northwest extremity of Astrolabe Island in Bransfield Strait off Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica. Situated northwest of Sherrell Point and west of Drumohar Peak....

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The point is named after the settlement of Gega in southwestern 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

Gega Point is located at 63°19′39"S 58°42′22"W. German-British mapping in 1996.

Map

• Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.