Sursuvul Point (, ‘Nos Sursuvul’ \'nos sur-su-'vul\) is the rocky point on Davis Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica projecting 300 m northwards into Orléans Strait. The point is named after Georgi Sursuvul, first minister and regent of Bulgaria during the reigns of Czar Simeon the Great and Czar Peter I (9th-10th century).

Location

Sursuvul Point is located at , which is 4 km east of Cape Andreas, 12.5 km southeast of Skottsberg Point on Trinity Island, 20 km southwest of Cape Page and 4.4 km north-northwest of Langley Peak. British mapping in 1978.

Sursuvul Point

Maps

British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 60. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1978. Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.

Sursuvul Point

References

Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English) Sursuvul Point. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

Sursuvul Point

External links

Sursuvul Point. Copernix satellite image

Headlands of Graham Land

Davis Coast

Bulgaria and the Antarctic