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Madrid Dome (, ‘Kupol Madrid’ \'ku-pol ma-'drid\) is the ice dome rising to 1647 mReference Elevation Model of Antarctica.
Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019
at the southwest extremity of Aristotle Mountains on Oscar II Coast,
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in
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. It is surmounting Crane Glacier to the northwest and Flask Glacier to the south. The feature is named after the capital city of
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, in connection with the Madrid Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty. The dome was first named by the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria.


Location

Madrid Dome is located at , which is 12.7 km east of Roundel Dome, 15.8 km southeast of Bersin Ridge, 58.4 km west by south of Cape Disappointment, 25 km northwest of Bildad Peak and 34.2 km north-northeast of Moider Peak.
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mapping in 1976.


Maps


Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.


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References


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Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.
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basic data
in English) Mountains of Graham Land Oscar II Coast Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{OscarIICoast-geo-stub