Ficheto Point is an ice-free point on the northeast coast of Varna Peninsula

Varna Peninsula

Varna Peninsula is a roughly rectangular predominantly ice-covered peninsula forming the northeast extremity of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica...

, Livingston Island, Antarctica forming the southeast side of the entrance to Dragon Cove

Dragon Cove

Dragon Cove is a 550 m wide cove indenting for 600 m the northeast coast of Varna Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica entered between Sigritsa Point and Ficheto Point. Surmounted by Sayer Nunatak on the southwest...

. Channel Rock (62°27′47.8"S 60°04′51.5"W) is lying in the adjacent northwestern part of McFarlane Strait

McFarlane Strait

McFarlane Strait is the 24.5 km long and 3.35 km wide strait lying between Greenwich and Livingston Island, in the South Shetland Islands...

, 1.3 km (0.807784557644749 mi) northeast of Ficheto Point and 920 m (1,006.1 yd) south-southwest of Meade Islands

Meade Islands

Meade Islands is a group of two islands, the larger west one being Zverino Island and the smaller east one Cave Island, and rocks lying in the north entrance to McFarlane Strait in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Their surface areas are and . respectively...

. The area was visited by 19th century sealers

Seal hunting

Seal hunting, or sealing, is the personal or commercial hunting of seals. The hunt is currently practiced in five countries: Canada, where most of the world's seal hunting takes place, Namibia, the Danish region of Greenland, Norway and Russia...

.

The point is named after the famous 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 architect, builder and sculptor Nikola Fichev – ‘Kolyu Ficheto

Kolyu Ficheto

Nikola Fichev , commonly known as Kolyu Ficheto , was a Bulgarian National Revival architect, builder and sculptor born in Dryanovo in 1800....

’ (1800-1881). Channel Rock was charted and descripticely named by the Discovery Investigations

Discovery Investigations

The Discovery Investigations were a series of scientific cruises and shore-based investigations into the biology of whales in the Southern Ocean. They were funded by the British Colonial Office and organised by the Discovery Committee in London, which was formed in 1918...

 in 1935.

Location

Ficheto Point is located at 62°28′04"S 60°06′28"W which is
2.3 km (1.4 mi) southeast of Williams Point

Williams Point

Williams Point is the point forming both the north extremity of Varna Peninsula and the northeast tip of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica...

, 800 m (874.9 yd) east-southeast of Sigritsa Point

Sigritsa Point

Sigritsa Point is an ice-free point on the northeast coast of Varna Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica forming the northwest side of the entrance to Dragon Cove...

, 1.3 km (0.807784557644749 mi) east of Sayer Nunatak

Sayer Nunatak

Sayer Nunatak is a rocky peak rising to 210 m south of Williams Point on Varna Peninsula, at the north edge of the ice cap of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica...

 and 2.9 km (1.8 mi) northwest of Pomorie Point

Pomorie Point

Pomorie Point is a point on the coast of McFarlane Strait forming the north side of the entrance to Lister Cove, Varna Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica....

. (British mapping in 1935 and 1968, Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009).

See also

• Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
• List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S
• SCAR
  Scar
  Scars are areas of fibrous tissue that replace normal skin after injury. A scar results from the biological process of wound repair in the skin and other tissues of the body. Thus, scarring is a natural part of the healing process. With the exception of very minor lesions, every wound results in...
  
  
• Territorial claims in Antarctica

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

External links

• SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.