Milkov Point

Milkov Point (Bulgarian: Милков нос, ‘Milkov Nos’ \'mil-kov 'nos\) is a conspicuous rocky point on the east side of Lanchester Bay formed by an offshoot of Chanute Peak on Davis Coast in Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula.

Location of Davis Coast on the Antarctic Peninsula.

The point is named for the Bulgarian pioneer of aviation Radul Milkov (1883–1962) who, while on a combat air mission with Prodan Tarakchiev during the First Balkan War, used the first aerial bombs on October 16, 1912; in association with other names of pioneers of aviation in the area.[1]

Location

Milkov Point is located at 63°55′07″S 59°59′29″W, which is 11.5 km east of Havilland Point and 8.5 km south-southwest of Wennersgaard Point.[1] German-British mapping in 1996.

Map
  • Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.

Notes
  1. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica

References


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


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