Savoy Nunatak
| Savoy Nunatak | ||
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| height | 950 m | |
| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Elgar Uplands | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 39 ′ 46 ″ S , 71 ° 6 ′ 37 ″ W | |
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The Sawoj Nunatak ( Bulgarian нунатак Завой nunatak Sawoj ) is a largely icy, 2.8 km long, 1.4 km wide and 950 m high nunatak on the west side of the Elgar Uplands on the Alexander-I in a north-northwest-south-southeast orientation . Island west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 7.57 km north of the Appalachia Nunatakker , 15.38 km east of Mount Morley , 14 km south-southeast of the Shaw Nunatak and 9.42 km south-southwest of the Tegra Nunatak . The Nichols Snowfield lies to the northwest, the Gilbert Glacier southwest and the head end of the Bartók Glacier southeast of it.
British scientists mapped it in 1971. The Bulgarian geologists Christo Pimperew and Borislaw Kamenow visited the area on January 30, 1988 together with Philip Nell and Peter Marquis from the British Antarctic Survey . The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2017 after the village of Sawoj in southeastern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Zavoy Nunatak in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)