Milkov Point ( bg, Милков нос, ‘Milkov Nos’ \'mil-kov 'nos\) is a conspicuous rocky point on the east side of

Lanchester Bay Lanchester Bay () is a bay wide lying east of Havilland Point, along the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. Its head is fed by Temple Glacier and Kasabova Glacier. The bay was photographed by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd in 1955–57 and mapped f ...

formed by an offshoot of Chanute Peak on

Davis Coast Davis Coast () is that portion of the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Kjellman and Cape Sterneck. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Captain John Davis, the American sealer who claimed to have made ...

Graham Land Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee a ...

on the

Antarctic Peninsula The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martín in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctic ...

. The point is named for the Bulgarian pioneer of aviation

Radul Milkov Radul or Radule () is a Slavic given name, derived from the word ''rad'', meaning "work, care ". It is the base of the Serbian surnames of Radulović, Radulić, Raduljica, and the Russian and Bulgarian Radulov. Several toponyms are derived from ...

(1883–1962) who, while on a combat air mission with Prodan Tarakchiev during the

First Balkan War The First Balkan War ( sr, Први балкански рат, ''Prvi balkanski rat''; bg, Балканска война; el, Αʹ Βαλκανικός πόλεμος; tr, Birinci Balkan Savaşı) lasted from October 1912 to May 1913 and invo ...

, used the first

aerial bomb An aerial bomb is a type of explosive or incendiary weapon intended to travel through the air on a predictable trajectory. Engineers usually develop such bombs to be dropped from an aircraft. The use of aerial bombs is termed aerial bombing. ...

s on October 16, 1912; in association with other names of pioneers of aviation in the area.SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
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Location

Milkov Point is located at , which is 11.5 km east of Havilland Point and 8.5 km south-southwest of

Wennersgaard Point Wennersgaard Point () is a point forming the northwest extremity of Svilengrad Peninsula on Davis Coast, the west coast of Graham Land in Antarctica. It is situated on both the east side of the entrance to Lanchester Bay and its sub-embayment H ...

. 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

References

Milkov Point.

SCAR A scar (or scar tissue) is an area of fibrous tissue that replaces normal skin after an injury. Scars result from the biological process of wound repair in the skin, as well as in other organs, and tissues of the body. Thus, scarring is a n ...

Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica The Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (CGA) of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) is the authoritative international gazetteer containing all Antarctic toponyms published in national gazetteers, plus basic information about ...

.
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.
Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)

External links

Milkov Point.
Copernix satellite image Headlands of Graham Land Bulgaria and the Antarctic Davis Coast {{DavisCoast-geo-stub