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Gusla Peak ( bg, връх Гусла, vrah Gusla, ) is the peak rising to 842 mReference Elevation Model of Antarctica.
Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019
in the southeast foothills 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 ...
on
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 ...
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 ...
, at the NNW extremity of a narrow 3.9 km long rocky ridge surmounting
Desudava Glacier Desudava Glacier () is the long and wide glacier on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica situated south of Dinsmoor Glacier and east-northeast of Boryana Glacier. Location Desudava Glacier is on the Nordenskjöld Coast of the Antar ...
to the north and east,
Mundraga Bay Mundraga Bay ( bg, залив Мундрага, zaliv Mundraga, ) is the 28.6 km wide bay indenting for 23 km Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. It is entered east of Fothergill Point and west of Cape Sobral. Local coastli ...
to the southeast, and
Boryana Glacier Desudava Glacier () is the long and wide glacier on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica situated south of Dinsmoor Glacier and east-northeast of Boryana Glacier. Location Desudava Glacier is on the Nordenskjöld Coast of the Antar ...
to the south. The peak is named after the settlement of Gusla in Northeastern Bulgaria.


Location

Gusla Peak is located at , which 4.88 km south-southwest of Kavlak Peak, 8.02 km west-southwest of Mount Elliott, 9.77 km northeast of
Batkun Peak Batkun Peak ( bg, връх Баткун, vrah Batkun, ) is the peak rising to 881 mBaldwin 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), 1993–2016.


Notes


References


Gusla 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


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