Ficheto Point | |
Image Map Caption: | Location of Ficheto Point |
Pushpin Map: | Antarctic Peninsula#Antarctica |
Pushpin Map Relief: | yes |
Location: | Antarctica |
Coordinates: | -62.4678°N -60.1097°W |
Archipelago: | South Shetland Islands |
Population: | uninhabited |
Country: | Antarctica |
Treaty System: | Antarctic Treaty System |
Ficheto Point (Nos Ficheto 'nos 'fi-che-to) is an ice-free point on the northeast coast of Varna Peninsula, Livingston Island, Antarctica forming the southeast side of the entrance to Dragon Cove. Channel Rock (-62.4633°N -60.081°W) is lying in the adjacent northwestern part of McFarlane Strait, 1.3km (00.8miles) northeast of Ficheto Point and 920m (3,020feet) south-southwest of Meade Islands. The area was visited by 19th century sealers.
The point is named after the famous Bulgarian architect, builder and sculptor Nikola Fichev – ‘Kolyu Ficheto’ (1800-1881). Channel Rock was charted and descriptively named by the Discovery Investigations in 1935.
Ficheto Point is located at -62.4678°N -60.1078°W which is2.3km (01.4miles) southeast of Williams Point, 800m (2,600feet) east-southeast of Sigritsa Point, 1.3km (00.8miles) east of Sayer Nunatak and 2.9km (01.8miles) northwest of Pomorie Point. (British mapping in 1935 and 1968, Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009).