Pascin_Point

Pascin Point

Pascin Point (Bulgarian: нос Паскин, ‘Nos Pascin’ \'nos pas-'kin\) is the oval rocky point on the northwest coast of Livingston Island in Antarctica projecting 250 m north-northwestwards into Zornitsa Cove in Barclay Bay. It is named after the Bulgarian artist Jules Pascin (Julius Pincas, 1885-1930).

Location of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands
Topographic map featuring Pascin Point

Location

Pascin Point is located at 62°35′12″S 60°50′41″W, which is 3 km east-northeast of Rowe Point, 6.4 km southeast of Frederick Rocks and 5.82 km south of Scesa Point. British mapping in 1968, and Bulgarian in 2005, 2009 and 2017.

Maps

References


This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.



Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Pascin_Point, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.