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Kavlak Peak ( bg, връх Кавлак, vrah Kavlak, ) is the peak rising to 1160 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 ...
. It is situated in the west part of a narrow rocky ridge projecting 5 km eastwards into the upper course of
Dinsmoor Glacier Dinsmoor Glacier () is a glacier in the Nordenskjöld Coast of Antarctica, named for inventor Charles Dinsmoor. It flows east from the Detroit Plateau, and merges with the Edgeworth Glacier near Mount Elliott before draining into Mundraga Bay. ...
. The peak is named after the settlement of Kavlak in Northern Bulgaria.


Location

Kavlak Peak is located at , which is 7.17 km west-southwest of
Darzalas Peak Darzalas Peak ( bg, връх Дарзалас, vrah Darzalas, ) is the rocky, mostly ice-free peak rising to 934 mMount Elliott, 4.88 km north-northeast of
Gusla Peak Gusla Peak ( bg, връх Гусла, vrah Gusla, ) is the peak rising to 842 mRef ...
, and 25.41 km east 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 Is ...
on
Danco Coast The Danco Coast () is the portion of the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Sterneck and Cape Renard. This coast was explored in January and February 1898 by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Adrien de Gerlache, who named it f ...
. British mapping in 1978.


Map


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


Kavlak 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


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