Ratscheniza-Nunatak
| Ratscheniza-Nunatak | ||
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| height | 800 m | |
| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 35 '24 " S , 71 ° 15' 45" W | |
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The Ratscheniza nunatak ( Bulgarian нунатак Ръченица nunatak Ratscheniza ) is an 800 m high and in north-south orientation 1.8 km long nunatak with double peaks in the north of the Alexander I Island west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 5.3 km south-southwest of Shaw Nunatak , 8.3 km west of Tegra Nunatak , 8.05 km northwest of Nebusch Nunatak and 8.4 km east-northeast of Moriseni Peak .
The Bulgarian geologists Christo Pimperew and Borislaw Kamenow visited him on February 2, 1988 together with Philip Nell and Peter Marquis from the British Antarctic Survey . British scientists had mapped it back in 1971. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2017 after the Bulgarian folk dance Ratscheniza and the place of the same name in southeastern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Rachenitsa Nunatak in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)