Raduil Point
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Raduil Point is a point forming the northwest extremity of Astrolabe Island
in Bransfield Strait
off Trinity Peninsula
, Antarctica. Situated 4.5 km (2.8 mi) northwest of Sherrell Point
and 3.15 km (2 mi) west of Drumohar Peak
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The point is named after the settlement of Raduil in southwestern Bulgaria
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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. Situated 4.5 km (2.8 mi) 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 3.15 km (2 mi) west of Drumohar Peak
Drumohar Peak
Drumohar Peak is the ice-covered peak rising to 553 m on Astrolabe Island in Graham Land, Antarctica.The peak is named after the settlement of Drumohar in Western Bulgaria.-Location:...
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The point is named after the settlement of Raduil 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
Raduil Point is located at 63°18′14"S 58°44′55"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.