Ficheto Point

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 (-62.46328°N, -60.08097°W) is lying in the adjacent northwestern part of McFarlane Strait, 1.3 km northeast of Ficheto Point and 920 m 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.

Location
Ficheto Point is located at -62.46778°N, -60.10778°W which is2.3 km southeast of Williams Point, 800 m east-southeast of Sigritsa Point, 1.3 km east of Sayer Nunatak and 2.9 km northwest of Pomorie Point. (British mapping in 1935 and 1968, Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009).



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