Papija-Nunatak

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Papija-Nunatak
height 550  m
location Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula
Mountains Detroit plateau
Coordinates 64 ° 40 ′ 23 "  S , 60 ° 40 ′ 31"  W Coordinates: 64 ° 40 ′ 23 "  S , 60 ° 40 ′ 31"  W
Papija-Nunatak (Antarctic Peninsula)
Papija-Nunatak

The Papija-Nunatak ( Bulgarian нунатак Папия nunatak Papija ) is a 550  m high and rocky Nunatak at the Nordenskjöld Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . In the southern foothills of the Detroit Plateau, it rises 6.44 km southeast of the summit of Ruth Ridge , 6.2 km south-southwest of the Cruyt Spur , 14.6 km west to south of Cape Worsley , 11.7 km north to east of the Sentinel -Nunataks and 8 km east-northeast of the Bekker-Nunatakker north of the mouth of the Drygalski glacier .

British scientists mapped it in 1978. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2010 after a mountain on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast .

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