Balgari Nunatak
| Balgari Nunatak | ||
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| height | 200 m | |
| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 6 ′ 56 ″ S , 72 ° 9 ′ 25 ″ W | |
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The Balgari Nunatak ( Bulgarian нунатак Българи nunatak Balgari , German 'Bulgarian Nunatak' ) is a mostly non- icy , rocky, 200 m high and in an east-west orientation 800 m long and 550 m wide nunatak in the north of Alexander I Island west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 1.85 km north to west of Cape Vostok , 13.4 km west of Boyn Ridge , 6.1 km northwest of Saint George Peak and 0.63 km inland of the coastline on the south side of the Bongrain-Piedmont Glacier . The Lazarev Bay is south of it.
The Bulgarian geologists Christo Pimperew and Borislaw Kamenow explored it on January 3, 1988 together with Philip Nell and Peter Marquis from the British Antarctic Survey . A headland located 0.36 km southeast of the Nunatak was to serve as the location for a Bulgarian Antarctic station. The plan to transport two prefabricated huts there with the help of a helicopter from the Russian ship Somow failed due to bad weather. Instead, these were built on Livingston Island as St. Kliment Ohridski Station . British scientists mapped the Nunatak in 1991. The Bulgarian Commission on Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2017.
Web links
- Balgari Nunatak in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)