Tarakchiev Point is a sharp, rocky point forming the west extremity of Whittle Peninsula

Whittle Peninsula

Whittle Peninsula is a peninsula, 5 nautical miles long, terminating in Cape Kater and forming the west limit of Charcot Bay on Davis Coast, Graham Land. Surveyed by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition in December 1902...

 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 on the northeast side of the entrance to Jordanoff Bay

Jordanoff Bay

Jordanoff Bay is the 5 km wide bay indenting for 4.9 km Davis Coast in Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula. Entered between Wennersgaard Point and Tarakchiev Point....

, 4.4 km south-southwest of Cape Kater

Cape Kater

Cape Kater is a cape fringed by rocks, marking the west side of the entrance to Charcot Bay on the west coast of Graham Land. This coast was sketched by a British expedition 1828-31, under Foster, who named a cape in this region after Captain Henry Kater, a member of the committee which planned...

 and 5 km northeast 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...

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The point is named for the Bulgarian pioneer of aviation Prodan Tarakchiev (1885–1969) who, while on a joint 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 Radul Milkov 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

Tarakchiev Point is located at 63°48′44"S 59°52′13"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.