Yovkov Point
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Yovkov Point is a point on the southwest coast of Greenwich Island, Antarctica projecting 150 m southwards into McFarlane Strait
McFarlane Strait
McFarlane Strait is the 24.5 km long and 3.35 km wide strait lying between Greenwich and Livingston Island, in the South Shetland Islands...

, forming the northwest side of the entrance to Kramolin Cove
Kramolin Cove
Kramolin Cove is the 1.92 km wide cove indenting for 900 m the southwest coast of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Entered between Yovkov Point and Kaspichan Point...

. Formed as a result of Murgash Glacier
Murgash Glacier
Murgash Glacier is the 3.4 km long and 3.2 km wide glacier situated east and southeast of Lloyd Hill, west of Tile Ridge and northwest of Hebrizelm Hill on Greenwich Island, in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica...

's retreat in the late 20th and early 21st century. The feature is named after the famous 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...

n writer Yordan Yovkov
Yordan Yovkov
Yordan Yovkov was a Bulgarian writer, considered one of the best in the country during the period between the two world wars.-Biography:...

 (1880-1937).

Location

The point is located at 62°30′30.3"S 59°54′11"W which is 3.6 km southeast of Kerseblept Nunatak
Kerseblept Nunatak
Kerseblept Nunatak is a rocky hill of elevation 90 m projecting from Yakoruda Glacier on Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica...

, 2.2 km south-southwest of Lloyd Hill
Lloyd Hill
Lloyd Hill is an ice-covered hill rising to 335 m in the southwest of Dryanovo Heights, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica...

, 2.95 km southwest of Tile Ridge
Tile Ridge
Tile Ridge is a partly ice-free ridge of elevation 240 m in Dryanovo Heights, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica....

 and 1.98 km west-northwest of Kaspichan Point
Kaspichan Point
Kaspichan Point is a point on the southeast side of the entrance to Kramolin Cove on the southwest coast of Greenwich Island, Antarctica. Situated next west of Hebrizelm Hill, 1.4 km northwest of Triangle Point, 2 km south-southwest of Tile Ridge, and 2 km southeast of Yovkov Point...

 (Bulgarian topographic survey 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...

 and mapping in 2005 and 2009).

Maps

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