Machete Hook (, ) 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.
The feature is so named because of its shape supposedly resembling a machete.
Location
Machete Hook is centred at , which is 1.5 km southeast of Melta Point and 7.7 km southwest of Bezmer Point. British mapping in 1968 and Bulgarian in 2009 and 2017.
Maps
- Livingston Island to King George Island. Scale 1:200000. Admiralty Nautical Chart 1776. Taunton: UK Hydrographic Office, 1968
- South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:200000 topographic map No. 3373. DOS 610 - W 62 58. Tolworth, UK, 1968
- L. Ivanov. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2010. (First edition 2009. )
- L. Ivanov. . Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017.
- Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated
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