Feature in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica
Location of Tangra Mountains on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Kaloyan Nunatak from
Bransfield Strait .
Topographic map of Livingston Island and Smith Island.
Kaloyan Nunatak (pronounced ka-lo-'ya-nov 'nu-na-tak\) is a conspicuous
nunatak in the
Tangra Mountains . It is named after Czar
Kaloyan of Bulgaria, 1197-1207 AD.
Kaloyan Nunatak rises to approximately 400 m in
Delchev Ridge , Tangra Mountains, on eastern
Livingston Island in the
South Shetland Islands ,
Antarctica . It is situated next northeast of
Sozopol Gap , 1.81 km east-northeast of
Elena Peak , 1.53 km west-southwest of
Mesta Peak and 3.32 km west-southwest of
Renier Point . The peak surmounts
Pautalia Glacier to the south, and
Sopot Ice Piedmont to the west, north, and northeast.
It was mapped in 2005 and 2009 from the
Tangra 2004/05 topographic survey, and has since been registered in the SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
Kaloyan Nunatak is located at
62°37′23.8″S 59°51′48″W / 62.623278°S 59.86333°W / -62.623278; -59.86333 .
Maps
L.L. Ivanov et al.
Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands . Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.
L.L. Ivanov.
Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands . Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009.
L.L. Ivanov.
Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2010.
ISBN
978-954-92032-9-5 (First edition 2009.
ISBN
978-954-92032-6-4 )
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
L.L. Ivanov.
Antarctica: Livingston Island and Smith Island . Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017.
ISBN
978-619-90008-3-0
References
External links
This article includes information from the
Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.