Location of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Smolyan Point from Bulgarian Beach, with Emona Anchorage in the foreground and Pimpirev Glacier in the background.
Topographic map of central-eastern Livingston Island featuring Smolyan Point.
Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Smolyan Point (Nos Smolyan \'nos 'smo-lyan\) is located on the north-western coast of South Bay, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica forming the northwest side of the entrance to Emona Anchorage. The ice-covered point shows conspicuous radial crevasses spreading inland and ends up with a 25 m wide and 4 m high rock. The feature was formed as a result of Pimpirev Glacier's retreat in the late 20th century.

Smolyan is the name of a town in the Rhodope Mountains in southern Bulgaria.

Location

The point is located at 62°37′27.7″S 60°25′57″W / 62.624361°S 60.43250°W / -62.624361; -60.43250, which is 1.86 km east-northeast of Ereby Point and 3.7 km northwest of Hespérides Point. (Bulgarian mapping in 1996, 2005 and 2009 from a 1995/96 Bulgarian topographic survey).

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