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Batil Spur (, ‘Batilov Rid’ \ba-'ti-lov 'rid\) is the rocky ridge extending 3.9 km and 1.3 km wide, forming the southeast extremity of Flowers Hills on the east side of
Sentinel Range The Sentinel Range is a major mountain range situated northward of Minnesota Glacier and forming the northern half of the Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica. The range trends NNW-SSE for about and is wide. Many peaks rise over and Vinson Mass ...
in
Ellsworth Mountains The Ellsworth Mountains are the highest mountain ranges in Antarctica, forming a long and wide chain of mountains in a north to south configuration on the western margin of the Ronne Ice Shelf in Marie Byrd Land. They are bisected by Minneso ...
. It surmounts
Rutford Ice Stream Rutford Ice Stream () is a major Antarctic ice stream, about long and over wide, which drains southeastward between the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains and Fletcher Ice Rise into the southwest part of Ronne Ice Shelf. Named by US-ACAN f ...
to the east and the ends of its tributaries flowing from Sikera Valley and
Doyran Heights Doyran Heights (, ) are the heights rising to 3473 mReference Elevation Model ...
to the west. The peak is named after the medieval fortress of Batil in Western Bulgaria.


Location

Batil Spur's southernmost height of elevation 626.5 mReference Elevation Model of Antarctica.
Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019 is located at , which is 13.4 km southeast of Gubesh Peak, 21 km north-northeast of
Long Peak Long Peak () is a bare rock peak, high, on the extended ridge line, east-northeast of Mount Landolt in the Petvar Heights of the southeast Sentinel Range in the Ellsworth Mountains of Antarctica. It overlooks the lower courses of Drama Glaci ...
in
Petvar Heights Petvar Heights (, ) are the heights rising to 2492 mReference Elevation Model o ...
, and 13.3 km northeast of Johnson Spur and 13.07 km east-southeast of Taylor Spur in
Doyran Heights Doyran Heights (, ) are the heights rising to 3473 mReference Elevation Model ...
. US mapping in 1961 and 1988.


Maps


Vinson Massif.
Scale 1:250 000 topographic map. Reston, Virginia: US Geological Survey, 1988.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly updated.


Notes


References


Batil Spur.
SCAR A scar (or scar tissue) is an area of fibrosis, fibrous tissue that replaces normal skin after an injury. Scars result from the biological process of wound repair in the skin, as well as in other Organ (anatomy), organs, and biological tissue, t ...
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 th ...
.
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.
Antarctic Place-names Commission The Antarctic Place-names Commission was established by the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute in 1994, and since 2001 has been a body affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Bulgaria), Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria. The Commis ...
. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)


External links


Batil Spur.
Adjusted Copernix satellite image Ellsworth Mountains Bulgaria and the Antarctic Ridges of Ellsworth Land {{EllsworthLand-geo-stub