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Fletcher Nunatak ( bg, нунатак Флечър, nunatak Fletcher, ) is the hill rising to 150 mReference Elevation Model of Antarctica.
Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019
at the base of the small peninsula ending in
Avitohol Point Avitohol Point ( bg, нос Авитохол, nos Avitohol, ) 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 ...
on the north coast of
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� ...
in the
South Shetland Islands The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands with a total area of . They lie about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, and between southwest of the nearest point of the South Orkney Islands. By the Antarctic Treaty of 195 ...
,
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. It has a partly ice-free area of 0.54 ha extending 100 m in southwest–northeast direction and 60 m in southeast–northwest direction. The nunatak surmounts
Hero Bay A hero (feminine: heroine) is a real person or a main fictional character who, in the face of danger, combats adversity through feats of ingenuity, courage, or strength. Like other formerly gender-specific terms (like ''actor''), ''hero' ...
on the northeast, and is part of the glacial divide between
Tundzha Glacier Tundzha Glacier ( bg, ледник Тунджа, lednik Tundzha, ) 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 ...
on the southeast and
Berkovitsa Glacier Berkovitsa Glacier ( bg, ледник Берковица, lednik Berkovitsa, ) is a glacier on Livingston Island, Antarctica situated east of Etar Snowfield, south of Medven Glacier, west-northwest of Tundzha Glacier and north-northeast of Ve ...
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 180 ...
.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 the American woman
land surveyor Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art, and science of determining the terrestrial two-dimensional or three-dimensional positions of points and the distances and angles between them. A land surveying professional is c ...
Alice Cunningham Fletcher Alice Cunningham Fletcher (March 15, 1838 in Havana, Cuba, HavanaApril 6, 1923 in Washington, D.C.) was an American ethnologist, anthropologist, and social scientist who studied and documented Indigenous peoples of the Americas, American Indian c ...
(1838-1923), in association with other names in the area deriving from the early development or use of
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instruments and methods.


Location

Fletcher Nunatak is centered at ,Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.
Antarctic Place-names Commission
which is 1.34 km northeast of Snow Peak and 1.64 km south-southwest of
Avitohol Point Avitohol Point ( bg, нос Авитохол, nos Avitohol, ) 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 ...
.


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. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)


External links


Fletcher Nunatak.
Adjusted Copernix satellite image Nunataks of Livingston Island Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{LivingstonIsland-geo-stub