Milkov Point

Location of Davis Coast on the Antarctic Peninsula.

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. Situated 11.5 km east of Havilland Point and 8.5 km south-southwest of Wennersgaard Point.

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.

Location

Milkov Point is located at 63°55′07″S 59°59′29″W / 63.91861°S 59.99139°W / -63.91861; -59.99139Coordinates: 63°55′07″S 59°59′29″W / 63.91861°S 59.99139°W / -63.91861; -59.99139. German-British mapping in 1996.

Map

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

References

Milkov Point. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)

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

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