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Marten Crag ( bg, Мартенски камък, ‘Martenski Kamak’ \'mar-ten-ski 'ka-m&k\) is the rocky peak rising to 665 mReference Elevation Model of Antarctica.
Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019
between Stepup Col and the eastern foothills of Giovannini (Lobell) Ridge 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 ...
. It is surmounting
Broad Valley Broad Valley () is a descriptive name for the broad glacier-filled valley on the south side of Laclavere Plateau, Trinity Peninsula. The name was suggested by V.I. Russell of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey The British Antarctic Surv ...
to the north and
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 ...
to the southeast. The peak is named after the town of
Marten A marten is a weasel-like mammal in the genus ''Martes'' within the subfamily Guloninae, in the family Mustelidae. They have bushy tails and large paws with partially retractile claws. The fur varies from yellowish to dark brown, depending on t ...
in Northeastern Bulgaria.


Location

Marten Crag is located at , which is 8.2 km northwest of McCalman Peak, 7.88 km north by east of
Kribul Hill Kribul Hill ( bg, Крибулски хълм, ‘Kribulski Halm’ \'kri-bul-ski 'h&lm\) is the rocky hill rising to 501 mYarlovo Nunatak Yarlovo Nunatak ( bg, Ярловски нунатак, ‘Yarlovski nunatak’ \'yar-lov-ski 'nu-na-tak\) is the rocky hill rising to 739 mKanitz Nunatak Kanitz may refer to: People * August Kanitz, (1843–1896), Hungarian botanist * August Wilhelm Graf von Kanitz (1783–1852), Prussian Lieutenant General and Minister of War * Ernest Kanitz (1894–1978), composer; see Houston Bright * Felix P ...
and 3.08 km west of Kumata Hill. 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


Marten Crag.
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


Marten Crag.
Copernix satellite image Rock formations of the Trinity Peninsula Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{TrinityPeninsula-geo-stub