Machete Hook

Location of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands and Antarctica
Vasilev Bay from Leslie Gap, with Melta Point and Machete Hook in the background
Topographic map of Livingston Island and Smith Island

Machete Hook (Bulgarian: коса Мачетето, romanized: kosa Macheteto, IPA: [ko'sa mɐ't͡ʃɛtɛto]) is the low-tide elevation spit wide 70 m and projecting from the small peninsula ending in Siddins Point 830 m eastwards into Vasilev Bay in Hero Bay on the north coast of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Bulgarian topographic survey Tangra 2004/05. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers.[1]

The feature is so named because of its shape supposedly resembling a machete.

  1. ^ L. Ivanov. General Geography and History of Livingston Island. In: Bulgarian Antarctic Research: A Synthesis. Eds. C. Pimpirev and N. Chipev. Sofia: St. Kliment Ohridski University Press, 2015. pp. 17–28