Meda Nunatak

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Meda Nunatak
height 770  m
location Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula
Coordinates 66 ° 13 ′ 19 ″  S , 63 ° 53 ′ 28 ″  W Coordinates: 66 ° 13 ′ 19 ″  S , 63 ° 53 ′ 28 ″  W
Meda Nunatak (Antarctic Peninsula)
Meda Nunatak

The Meda Nunatak ( Bulgarian нунатак Меда nunatak Meda ) is a km in the west-north-west-southeasterly orientation 2.65 long, 0,7 km wide and 850  m high Nunatak at the Foyn coast of Graham lands north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 15.35 km southwest of Bastion Peak , 8.8 km west-northwest of Fitzmaurice Point and 6.52 km northeast of Gluhar Hill in the middle of the Attlee Glacier .

British scientists mapped it in 1974. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2013 after Meda of Odessos († 336 BC), Thracian wife of the Macedonian King Philip II.

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