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Batkun Peak ( bg, връх Баткун, vrah Batkun, ) is the peak rising to 881 mReference Elevation Model of Antarctica.
Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019
in the southeast foothills of Detroit Plateau on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. It is situated in the west part of Grivitsa Ridge, surmounting
Darvari Glacier Darvari Glacier ( bg, ледник Дървари, lednik Darvari, ) is the 9 km long in northwest-southeast direction and 1.7 km wide glacier on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica situated southwest of Boryana Glacier and n ...
to the north and Zaychar Glacier to the south. The peak is named after the settlement of Batkun in Southern Bulgaria.


Location

Batkun Peak is located at , which is 9.77 km southwest of
Gusla Peak Gusla Peak ( bg, връх Гусла, vrah Gusla, ) is the peak rising to 842 mRef ...
, 9.43 km northwest of Fothergill Point, 3.43 km north-northeast of Kableshkov Ridge, 2.47 km northeast of Mikov Nunatak, and 23.22 km southeast of
Baldwin Peak Baldwin Peak () is a peak between Lilienthal Glacier and Mount Berry in northern Graham Land. It was photographed by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition in 1956–57 and mapped from these photos by the Falkland Isla ...
on Danco Coast. British mapping in 1978.


Maps


British Antarctic Territory.
Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 60. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, UK, 1978.
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


Batkun Peak.
SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
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 of Bulgaria. The Commission approves Bulgarian place names in ...
. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)


External links


Batkun Peak.
Copernix satellite image Mountains of Graham Land Bulgaria and the Antarctic Nordenskjöld Coast {{NordenskjöldCoast-geo-stub