St. Theodosius Nunatak
St. Theodosius Nunatak | ||
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height | 600 m | |
location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
Mountains | Havre Mountains | |
Coordinates | 69 ° 13 ′ 13 ″ S , 72 ° 4 ′ 36 ″ W | |
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The St. Theodosius Nunatak ( Bulgarian нунатак Св. Теодосий nunatak Sw. Teodossij ) is a north-east-southwest orientation 1.9 km long, 1 km wide, 600 m high and mostly unrefined nunatak on the west side of the Havre Mountains in the north of Alexander island west of the Antarctic peninsula . It rises 3.13 km east-northeast of Buneva Point , 8.86 km south-southwest of St. George Peak , 5.6 km west of Kutev Peak and 8.4 km northwest of Simon Peak . The Lennon Glacier is to the north and the Pipkow Glacier is south-southeast of it.
British scientists mapped it in 1991. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2017 after the Bulgarian clergyman Teodossi of Tarnowo († 1363) in connection with the village of Teodosiewo in northern Bulgaria .
Web links
- St. Theodosius Nunatak in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)