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Kozhuh Peak (, ) is the ice-covered peak rising to 1711 mReference Elevation Model of Antarctica.
Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019
on the west side of
Elgar Uplands The Elgar Uplands () are uplands rising to , between Tufts Pass to the north and Sullivan Glacier to the south, in the northern part of Alexander Island, Antarctica. They were first photographed from the air and roughly mapped by the British Grah ...
, 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, Antarcti ...
in
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 surmounts Delius Glacier to the north and Bartók Glacier to the south-southwest. The feature is named after the
extinct volcano A volcano is commonly defined as a vent or fissure in the Crust (geology), crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and volcanic gas, gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface. On Earth ...
of Mount Kozhuh, Southwestern
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.


Location

Kozhuh Peak is located at , 9.26 km north-northwest of
Mount Pinafore Mount Pinafore () is a prominent summit (topography), peak rising to about 1,100 m lying between Bartok Glacier and Sullivan Glacier situated in the northern portion of Alexander Island, Antarctica. It is located 6.27 km southeast of Lyubime ...
, 8.92 km northeast of
Appalachia Nunataks The Appalachia Nunataks () are a group of nunataks rising to about on the west side of the Elgar Uplands, Alexander Island, Antarctica. They are situated 5.62 km southwest of Lyubimets Nunatak, 9 km southwest of Kozhuh Peak and 9.65 ...
and 19.1 km southeast of Shaw Nunatak.


Maps

* British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 – W 69 70. Tolworth, UK, 1971
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)
Kozhuh Peak.
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 th ...


External links


Kozhuh Peak.
Copernix satellite image Mountains of Alexander Island Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{AlexanderIsland-geo-stub