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#redirect [[Astrolabe Island#Gega Point]]
{{Short description|Geographic point}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
[[File:Ant-pen-map-Astrolabe.PNG|thumb|Location of Astrolabe Island in the Antarctic Peninsula region.]]
[[File:Astrolabe-Island.jpg|thumb|Astrolabe Island with Gega Point on the right (behind the ship).]]
'''Gega Point ''' ({{lang-bg|нос Гега}}, ‘Nos Gega’ \'nos 'ge-ga\) is a point on the west coast of [[Astrolabe Island]] in [[Bransfield Strait]] off [[Trinity Peninsula]], [[Antarctica]] forming the southeast side of the entrance to [[Mokren Bight]].
The point is named after the settlement of [[Gega, Bulgaria|Gega]] in southwestern [[Bulgaria]].
==Location==
Gega Point is located at {{coord|63|19|39|S|58|42|22|W|display=inline,title}}, which is 1.15 km northwest of [[Sherrell Point]] and 3.35 km southeast of [[Raduil Point]]. German-British mapping in 1996.
==Maps==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20131002100340/http://www.bkg.bund.de/nn_193194/DE/Bundesamt/Downloads/Kostenlose-Karten/Antarktis-Karten/Satellitenbildkarten/Scale250/Daten/Trinity-Peninsula%2CtemplateId%3Draw%2Cproperty%3DpublicationFile.pdf/Trinity-Peninsula.pdf Trinity Peninsula.] Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.
* [http://www.add.scar.org Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).] Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.
==References==
* [https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/scar/display_name.cfm?gaz_id=136878 Gega Point.] [[Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research|SCAR]] [[Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica]].
* [http://apcbg.org/gazet-bg.pdf Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.] [[Antarctic Place-names Commission]]. (details in Bulgarian, [http://apcbg.org/gazet.pdf basic data] in English)
==External links==
* [https://copernix.io/#?where=-58.701433227478,-63.3275,15&?query=&?map_type=hybrid Gega Point.] Copernix satellite image
{{Bulgarian-named Antarctic place}}
[[Category:Headlands of Trinity Peninsula]]
[[Category:Bulgaria and the Antarctic]]
[[Category:Astrolabe Island]]
{{TrinityPeninsula-geo-stub}}
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