Milkov Point is a conspicuous rocky point on the east side of Lanchester Bay

Lanchester Bay

Lanchester Bay is a bay 7 nautical miles wide lying east of Havilland Point, along the west coast of Graham Land. Photographed by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. in 1955-57 and mapped from these photos by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey . Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names...

 formed by an offshoot of Chanute Peak

Chanute Peak

Chanute Peak is a peak in Korten Ridge on the east side of Lanchester Bay, south of Wennersgaard Point, Davis Coast in Graham Land. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Octave Chanute, American designer of gliders who first introduced moveable planes for the purpose of...

 on Davis Coast

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 the first recorded landing on the continent of...

 in Graham Land

Graham Land

Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which 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 and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...

 on the Antarctic Peninsula

Antarctic Peninsula

The Antarctic Peninsula is the northernmost part of the mainland of Antarctica. It extends from a line between Cape Adams and a point on the mainland south of Eklund Islands....

. Situated 11.5 km east of Havilland Point

Havilland Point

Havilland Point is a point 2 nautical miles east of Cape Page on the west coast of Graham Land. Photographed by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. in 1955-57 and mapped from these photos by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey . Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960 for...

 and 8.5 km south-southwest of Wennersgaard Point

Wennersgaard Point

Wennersgaard Point is a point forming both the east side of the entrance to Lanchester Bay and the southwest side of the entrance to Jordanoff Bay on Davis Coast, the west coast of Graham Land in Antarctica. First charted by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition in Nov.-Dec. 1902 and named after Ole C...

.

The point is named for the Bulgarian pioneer of aviation Radul Milkov (1883–1962) who, while on a combat air

Aerial warfare

Aerial warfare is the use of military aircraft and other flying machines in warfare, including military airlift of cargo to further the national interests as was demonstrated in the Berlin Airlift...

 mission with Prodan Tarakchiev during the First Balkan War

First Balkan War

The First Balkan War, which lasted from October 1912 to May 1913, pitted the Balkan League against the Ottoman Empire. The combined armies of the Balkan states overcame the numerically inferior and strategically disadvantaged Ottoman armies and achieved rapid success...

, used the first aerial bomb

Aerial bomb

An aerial bomb is a type of explosive weapon intended to travel through the air with predictable trajectories, usually designed to be dropped from an aircraft...

s on October 16, 1912.

Location

Milkov Point is located at 63°55′07"S 59°59′29"W. German-British mapping in 1996.

Map

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