Kukuryak Bluff
Kukuryak Bluff (Bulgarian: връх Кукуряк, romanized: vrah Kukuryak, IPA: [ˈvrɤx kokoˈrʲak]) is the partly ice-free bluff rising to over 700 m at the end of a ridge descending eastwards from Louis-Philippe Plateau on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. It is surmounting Cugnot Ice Piedmont to the southeast.
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The bluff is named after the settlement of Kukuryak in Southern Bulgaria.
Location
Kukuryak Bluff is located at 63°35′53″S 58°10′14″W, which is 3.65 km south of Windy Gap, 13.54 km west-northwest of Kribul Hill, 8.41 km north-northwest of Levassor Nunatak and 6.83 km east-northeast of Hochstetter Peak. Surmounting Cugnot Ice Piedmont to the southeast and southwest. German-British mapping in 1996.
Maps
- Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.
- Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly updated.
References
- Kukuryak Bluff. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
- Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
External links
- Kukuryak Bluff. Copernix satellite image
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.