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Belev Nunatak (, ) is the hill rising to 58 mReference Elevation Model of Antarctica.
Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019
on the small peninsula ending in
Avitohol Point Avitohol Point (, ) is a point on the north coast of Livingston Island, Antarctica projecting into Hero Bay to form the west side of the entrance to Skravena Cove and the southeast side of the entrance to Prisoe Cove. It is surmounted by Fle ...
on the north coast of
Livingston Island Livingston Island (Russian name ''Smolensk'', ) is an Antarctic island in the Southern Ocean, part of the South Shetland Islands, South Shetlands Archipelago, a group of List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands, Antarctic islands north of the ...
in the
South Shetland Islands The South Shetland Islands are a group of List of Antarctic and subantarctic islands, Antarctic islands located in the Drake Passage with a total area of . They lie about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, and between southwest of the n ...
,
Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean), it contains the geographic South Pole. ...
. It has a partly ice-free area of 0.25 ha extending 80 m in west–east direction and 60 m in south–north direction. The nunatak surmounts
Hero Bay Hero Bay () is a bay, wide, which indents for the northern side of Livingston Island between Cape Shirreff and Williams Point, in the South Shetland Islands. The glaciers Saedinenie Snowfield, Tundzha, Berkovitsa, Medven and Urdoviza feed ...
on the northeast, and is part of the glacial divide between
Tundzha Glacier Tundzha Glacier (, ) is a glacier on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica situated east-southeast of Berkovitsa Glacier, west of Saedinenie Snowfield, northwest of Pimpirev Glacier, north of Kamchiya Glacier, and eas ...
on the southeast and Berkovitsa Glacier on the west. The area was visited by early 19th century
sealers Sealer may refer either to a person or ship engaged in seal hunting, or to a sealant; associated terms include: Seal hunting * Sealer Hill, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica * Sealers' Oven, bread oven of mud and stone built by sealers around 1800 ...
.L. Ivanov
General Geography and History of Livingston Island.
In: ''Bulgarian Antarctic Research: A Synthesis''. Eds. C. Pimpirev and N. Chipev. Sofia: St. Kliment Ohridski University Press, 2015. pp. 17–28
The feature is named after Krasimir Belev, builder at the Bulgarian base St. Kliment Ohridski in 1995/96 and subsequent seasons, and participant in the first topographic survey of the base area from 31 January to 4 February 1996.


Location

Belev Nunatak is centred at ,Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.
Antarctic Place-names Commission
which is 2.3 km northeast of Snow Peak and 750 m south-southwest of
Avitohol Point Avitohol Point (, ) is a point on the north coast of Livingston Island, Antarctica projecting into Hero Bay to form the west side of the entrance to Skravena Cove and the southeast side of the entrance to Prisoe Cove. It is surmounted by Fle ...
. British mapping of the area in 1968 and Bulgarian in 2009 and 2017.


Maps

* Livingston Island to King George Island. Scale 1:200000. Admiralty Nautical Chart 1776. Taunton: UK Hydrographic Office, 1968
South Shetland Islands.
Scale 1:200000 topographic map No. 3373. DOS 610 - W 62 58. Tolworth, UK, 1968 * L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2010. (First edition 2009. ) * L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Smith Island. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017.
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 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


Belev Nunatak.
Adjusted Copernix satellite image {{Bulgarian-named Antarctic place Nunataks of Livingston Island Bulgaria and the Antarctic