Tegra Nunatak
| Tegra Nunatak | ||
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| height | 1200 m | |
| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Elgar Uplands | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 34 '53 " S , 71 ° 2' 54" W | |
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The Tegra Nunatak ( Bulgarian нунатак Тегра nunatak Tegra ) is one kilometer east-west orientation 2.6 long and 0.7 km wide and 1200 m high and mostly unvereister Nunatak on the western edge of the Elgar Uplands on the Alexander I.- Island west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 5 km north-northeast of the Nebusch-Nunatak , 8.1 km southeast of the Shaw-Nunatak and 9.38 km south to east of the Lizard-Nunatak . The Delius Glacier is to the southeast and the Nichols Snowfield to the north and west of it.
The Bulgarian geologists Christo Pimperew and Borislaw Kamenow visited him on January 30, 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 Roman camp Tegra in northeastern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Tegra Nunatak in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)