Nedelya Point is a sharp ice-free point on the north coast of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands

South Shetland Islands

The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands, lying about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, with a total area of . By the Antarctic Treaty of 1959, the Islands' sovereignty is neither recognized nor disputed by the signatories and they are free for use by any signatory for...

, Antarctica projecting 300 m into Barclay Bay

Barclay Bay

Barclay Bay is a bay lying between Cape Shirreff and Essex Point on the north side of Livingston Island, in the South Shetland Islands. The name appears on an 1825 chart of the British sealing expedition under James Weddell, and is now established in international usage.-Maps:* L.L. Ivanov et al....

. Situated 1.7 km southwest of Bilyar Point

Bilyar Point

Bilyar Point is a rounded ice-free point on the north coast of western Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica projecting 350 m into Barclay Bay...

, 3 km east of Lair Point

Lair Point

Lair Point is a point projecting 570 m into Barclay Bay from Robbery Beaches on Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and forming the east side of the entrance to Kukuzel Cove...

, and 1.6 km northeast of Sparadok Point

Sparadok Point

Sparadok Point is a sharp ice-free point projecting 200 m from the coast of Byers Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica with a chain of rocks extending further 270 m northwards into Barclay Bay. Situated 1.6 km southwest of Nedelya Point and 2.2 km...

. Linked by a chain of rocks to Cutler Stack

Cutler Stack

Cutler Stack is a sea stack extending and rising to , lying off Nedelya Point in the south of Barclay Bay, western Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica...

 located 300 m to the north-northwest.

The point is named after the Bulgaria

Bulgaria

Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

n educator Nedelya Petkova

Nedelya Petkova

Nedelya Petkova was a Bulgarian education pioneer. In 1859 she began teaching girls and developed this into a school system for girls across the Bulgarian part of the Ottoman Empire, with hundreds of girls attending classes....

 – ‘Baba (Grandma) Nedelya’ (1826–1894).

Location

Nedelya Point is located at 62°36′53"S 60°58′49"W. British mapping in 1968, Chilean in 1971, Argentine in 1980, Spanish in 1993 and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009.

Maps

• L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.
• L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4