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Gornik Knoll ( bg, хълм Горник, ‘Halm Gornik’ \'h&lm 'gor-nik\) is the rocky hill rising to 477 mReference Elevation Model of Antarctica.
Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019
on the southeast side of
Cugnot Ice Piedmont Cugnot Ice Piedmont () is an ice piedmont in Trinity Peninsula, about long and between wide, extending from Russell East Glacier to Eyrie Bay and bounded on the landward side by Louis Philippe Plateau. It was mapped from surveys by the Falkland ...
on
Trinity Peninsula Trinity Peninsula is the northernmost part of the Antarctic Peninsula. It extends northeastward for about 130 km (80 mi) to Cape Dubouzet from an imaginary line connecting Cape Kater on the north-west coast and Cape Longing on the sou ...
in
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 and ...
,
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 contine ...
. The hill is named after the settlement of Gornik in Northern
Bulgaria Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedon ...
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Location

Gornik Knoll is located at , which is 3.97 km west-southwest of McCalman Peak, 2.71 km east-northeast of
Kribul Hill Kribul Hill ( bg, Крибулски хълм, ‘Kribulski Halm’ \'kri-bul-ski 'h&lm\) is the rocky hill rising to 501 mMarten Crag. German-British mapping in 1996.


Maps


Trinity Peninsula.
Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly updated.


Notes


References


Gornik Knoll.
SCAR
Composite Antarctic Gazetteer 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 t ...

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


Gornik Knoll.
Copernix satellite image Hills of Trinity Peninsula Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{TrinityPeninsula-geo-stub