Nikyup Point is the point next east of Andrew Glacier

Andrew Glacier

Andrew Glacier is a glacier long, flowing northeast into Charcot Bay immediately west of Webster Peaks on Davis Coast, northern Graham Land. It was charted in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey who named the feature for Dr. J.D. Andrew, medical officer at the FIDS Hope Bay station...

 terminus on Trinity Peninsula

Trinity Peninsula

Trinity Peninsula is the extreme northern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, extending northeastward for about from a line connecting Cape Kjellman and Cape Longing. Dating back more than a century, chartmakers used various names for this portion of the Antarctic peninsula, each name having some...

, 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 12.65 km south-southeast of Radibosh Point

Radibosh Point

Radibosh Point is the point on the west side of the entrance to Charcot Bay forming the northeast extremity of Whittle Peninsula in the west end of Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula...

, 6.3 km northeast of Velichkov Knoll

Velichkov Knoll

Velichkov Knoll is the peak rising to 970 m east of Sabine Glacier and west of Andrew Glacier on Davis Coast in Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula. Situated 6.55 km east-southeast of Bankya Peak, 5.25 km northeast of Sredorek Peak and 6.3 km southwest of Nikyup Point.The peak is named after...

, 6.76 km west of Almond Point

Almond Point

Almond Point is a rocky point between Whitecloud Glacier and McNeile Glacier at the head of Charcot Bay, Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica. Charted in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey who applied the name because of the distinctive shape of the point....

 and 19.2 km southwest of Cape Kjellman

Cape Kjellman

Cape Kjellman is a cape marking the east side of the entrance to Charcot Bay, on the west side of Trinity Peninsula. First charted by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, under Nordenskjold, and named by him probably for Professor Frans Reinhold Kjellman, Swedish botanist....

. Shape enhanced as a result of Andrew Glacier’s retreat in the late 20th and early 21st century.

The point is named after the settlement of Nikyup in northern Bulgaria

Bulgaria

Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

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Location

Nikyup Point is located at 63°51′52"S 59°38′55"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.