Melta Point is a rocky point on the coast of Hero Bay

Hero Bay

Hero Bay is a 17 mi wide bay, which indents for 6 mi the north side of Livingston Island between Cape Shirreff and Williams Point, in the South Shetland Islands. The name ‘Blythe Bay’, originally applied to a small bay on the southeast side of Desolation Island on Powell's chart of 1822...

, Livingston Island, formed by an offshoot of Teres Ridge

Teres Ridge

Teres Ridge is a ridge of elevation 330 m extending 2 km in north-south direction and 1.2 km in east-west direction near Siddons Point on the Hero Bay coast of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica surmounting Tundzha Glacier to the southwest and Saedinenie...

. Adjacent ice-free area 116 hectares (286.6 acre). The point is named after the ancient Melta, ancestor of the present town of Lovech

Lovech

Lovech is a town in north-central Bulgaria with a population of 36,296 as of February 2011. It is the administrative centre of the Lovech Province and of the subordinate Lovech Municipality. The town is located about 150 km northeast from the capital city of Sofia...

 in Northern Bulgaria. This is one of the Bulgarian names bestowed on hitherto nameless geographical features by by the Tangra 2004/05

Tangra 2004/05

The Tangra 2004/05 Expedition was commissioned by the Antarctic Place-names Commission at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria, managed by the Manfred Wörner Foundation, and supported by the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute, the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy...

 Expedition.

Location

The point is located at 62°32′49.8"S 60°24′16"W which is 1.4 km east-southeast of Siddons Point

Siddons Point

Siddons Point is a point projecting into the middle of the head of Hero Bay on the north coast of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica...

 and 1.5 km north of the summit of Teres Ridge

Teres Ridge

Teres Ridge is a ridge of elevation 330 m extending 2 km in north-south direction and 1.2 km in east-west direction near Siddons Point on the Hero Bay coast of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica surmounting Tundzha Glacier to the southwest and Saedinenie...

 and 8.55 km west-southwest of Bezmer Point

Bezmer Point

Bezmer Point is on the northwest coast of the Varna Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The point is situated 9.6 km east-northeast of Siddons Point and 3 km southwest of Kotis Point and 4.9 km west-southwest of Miziya Peak...

 (Bulgarian topographic survey Tangra 2004/05, and mapping in 2005 and 2009).

Map

• 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.