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.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
The feature is so named because of its shape supposedly resembling a machete.
Location Machete Hook is centred at ,Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission 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. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2010. (First edition 2009. ) L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Smith Island. 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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References Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
External links Machete Hook. Adjusted Copernix satellite image