Pripor Nunatak

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Pripor Nunatak
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height 1000  m
location Alexander I Island , West Antarctica
Mountains Lassus Mountains
Coordinates 69 ° 38 ′ 8 ″  S , 71 ° 41 ′ 51 ″  W Coordinates: 69 ° 38 ′ 8 ″  S , 71 ° 41 ′ 51 ″  W
Pripor-Nunatak (Antarctic Peninsula)
Pripor Nunatak

The Pripor Nunatak (English; Bulgarian нунатак Припор nunatak Pripor ) is a 250  m high and in northeast-southwest orientation 3 km long and 600 m wide Nunatak on the southwest side of the Lassus Mountains on the Alexander I Island west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 4 km south-southeast of the Faulkner Nunatak , 3.86 km southwest of Beagle Peak and 8.23 ​​km northwest of Mount Morley . Its south-south-east side is shaped like a habloon, its steep north-west slopes are largely free of ice. The Lazarev Bay is located northwest of him.

British scientists mapped it in 1971. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2017 after the ancient town of Pripor in southeastern Bulgaria .

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