Balgari Nunatak ( bg, нунатак Българи, ‘Nunatak Balgari’ /'nunatak 'bɤlgari/) is the mostly ice-free rocky ridge extending 800 m in east–west direction and 550 m wide, rising to 282 mReference Elevation Model of Antarctica.
Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019 on the south side of Bongrain Ice Piedmont in northern

Alexander Island Alexander Island, which is also known as Alexander I Island, Alexander I Land, Alexander Land, Alexander I Archipelago, and Zemlja Alexandra I, is the largest island of Antarctica. It lies in the Bellingshausen Sea west of Palmer Land, Antar ...

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. It surmounts Lazarev Bay to the south. The nunatak was visited on 3 January 1988 by the geological survey party of Christo Pimpirev and Borislav Kamenov (First Bulgarian Antarctic Expedition), and Philip Nell and Peter Marquis (

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). On that occasion, a small rocky offshoot situated 360 m southeast of the nunatak's summit was designated as the site for a future Bulgarian Antarctic base. However, the two prefabricated huts brought for the purpose on board the

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Research Ship '' Mikhail Somov'' in April 1988 could not be helicoptered ashore due to bad weather, and were erected on

Livingston Island Livingston Island (Russian name ''Smolensk'', ) is an Antarctic island in the Southern Ocean, part of the South Shetlands Archipelago, a group of Antarctic islands north of the Antarctic Peninsula. It was the first land discovered south of 60� ...

instead.Ivanov, L. and N. Ivanova. ''The World of Antarctica''. Generis Publishing, 2022. 241 pp. The feature is so named in connection with the first choice of a site for the Bulgarian Antarctic base.

Location

The ridge is located at , which is 630 m from the seashore, 1.85 km north by west of

Cape Vostok Cape Vostok () is a rocky headland which forms the west extremity of the Havre Mountains and the northwest extremity of Alexander Island in Antarctica. It was discovered by the First Russian Antarctic Expedition in 1821, led by Fabian Gottlieb von ...

, 13.4 km west of

Boyn Ridge Boyn Ridge () is the northernmost ridge of the Havre Mountains, north Alexander Island, Antarctica. Situated 5.6 km north-northwest of Satovcha Peak. Following geological work by the British Antarctic Survey, 1976–77, it was named by the ...

and 6.1 km northwest of Saint George Peak.

Maps

* British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Sheet SR19-20/5. APC UK, 1991
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated

Notes

References

Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.
Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)
Balgari Nunatak.
SCAR

Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica The Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (CGA) of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) is the authoritative international gazetteer containing all Antarctic toponyms published in national gazetteers, plus basic information about ...

External links

Balgari Nunatak.
Adjusted Copernix satellite image Nunataks of Alexander Island Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{AlexanderIsland-geo-stub