Bolgar Buttress ( bg, text=рид Болгар, italic=yes, ‘Rid Bolgar’ \'rid 'bol-gar\) is the ice-covered buttress rising to 1688 mReference Elevation Model of Antarctica.
Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019 on the southeast side of

Detroit Plateau Detroit Plateau () is a major interior plateau of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula, with heights between . Its northeast limit is marked by the south wall of Russell West Glacier, from which it extends some in a general southwest direction ...

Nordenskjöld Coast The Nordenskjöld Coast (64° 30' S 60° 30' W) is located on the Antarctic Peninsula, more specifically Graham Land, which is the top region of the Peninsula. The Peninsula is a thin, long ice sheet with an Alpine-style mountain chain. The coast ...

Graham Land Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee an ...

Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest cont ...

, situated between the upper courses of Pyke and

Albone Glacier Albone Glacier () is a deeply entrenched narrow glacier on the east side of Wolseley Buttress flowing southward from Detroit Plateau on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. History Albone Glacier was mapped by the Falkland Islands Dep ...

s. It has steep and partly ice free west, south and east slopes. The feature is named after the medieval city of

Bolgar Bolgar may refer to: People *Bolgars, a people of Central Asian origin * Bolgar language, the extinct language of the Bulgars * Bolgar languages *Bolgar Bagryanov, Bulgarian film director *Boyan Bolgar, Bulgarian writer *Hedda Bolgar (1909– ...

, capital of

Volga Bulgaria Volga Bulgaria or Volga–Kama Bulgaria, was a historic Bulgar state that existed between the 7th and 13th centuries around the confluence of the Volga and Kama River, in what is now European Russia. Volga Bulgaria was a multi-ethnic state wi ...

in 8-15th century AD.

Location

Bolgar Buttress is located at , which is 3.77 km west of

Zasele Peak Zasele Peak ( bg, връх Заселе, vrah Zasele, ) is the ice-covered peak rising to 1250 m in the southeast foothills of Detroit Plateau on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica, situated between the upper courses of Polaris and Pyk ...

, 14.4 km north by west of

Dolen Peak Dolen Peak ( bg, връх Долен, vrah Dolen, ) is the rocky peak rising to 819 m Kopriva Peak Kopriva Peak ( bg, връх Коприва, vrah Kopriva, ) is the rocky peak rising to 1140 m Volov Peak Volov Peak ( bg, връх Волов, vrah Volov, ) is the rocky peak rising to 1202 m Davis Coast Davis Coast () is that portion of the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Kjellman and Cape Sterneck. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Captain John Davis, the American sealer who claimed to have mad ...

Map

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

Bolgar Buttress.
SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.
Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)

External links

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