Location of Byers Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands
Map of Antarctic Specially Protected Area ASPA 126 Byers Peninsula
Topographic map of Livingston Island and Smith Island

Sevar Point (Bulgarian: нос Севар, ‘Nos Sevar’ \'nos se-'var\) is a point on the south coast of Byers Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica situated 1.9 km east-southeast of Devils Point, 2.71 km west of Nikopol Point, and 2.97 km northeast of Long Rock in Morton Strait. It is surmounted by Wasp Hill on the north-northeast, Sealer Hill on the east-northeast, and forms the east side of the entrance to Raskuporis Cove.

The point is named after Khan Sevar of Bulgaria, 738-754 AD.

Location

Sevar Point is located at 62°40′32.6″S 61°08′49″W / 62.675722°S 61.14694°W / -62.675722; -61.14694. British mapping in 1968, Spanish in 1992 and Bulgarian in 2009.

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