Rakovski Nunatak
Rakovski Nunatak (Rakovski Nunatak \ra-'kov-ski 'nu-na-tak\) is a rocky peak of elevation 430 m in Vidin Heights on Varna Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Surmounting Rose Valley Glacier to the north.
The peak is named after Georgi S. Rakovski (1821–1867), writer and leader of the Bulgarian liberation movement.
Location
[edit | edit source]The peak is located at Lua error in Module:Coordinates at line 489: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value)., which is 1.58 km west of Sharp Peak, 3.6 km northeast of Miziya Peak and 1.38 km north-northeast of Madara Peak (Bulgarian topographic survey Tangra 2004/05, and mapping in 2005 and 2009).
Maps
[edit | edit source]- 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. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
References
[edit | edit source]- Rakovski Nunatak. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
- Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
External links
[edit | edit source]- Rakovski Nunatak. Copernix satellite image
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.
