Meda Nunatak ( bg, нунатак Меда, ‘Nunatak Meda’ \'nu-na-tak 'me-da\) is the rocky ridge extending 2.65 km in west-northwest to east-southeast direction, 700 m wide and rising to 1128 mReference Elevation Model of Antarctica.
Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019 in Attlee Glacier on

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Antarctic Peninsula The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martín in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctic ...

. The feature is named after

Meda of Odessos Meda of Odessos ( grc, Μήδα, Mḗda), died 336 BC, was a Thracian princess, daughter of the king Cothelas a Getae, and wife of king Philip II of Macedon. Philip married her after Olympias. According to N. G. L. Hammond, when Philip died, M ...

(4th century BC), a

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princess and wife of

Philip II of Macedon Philip II of Macedon ( grc-gre, Φίλιππος ; 382 – 21 October 336 BC) was the king ('' basileus'') of the ancient kingdom of Macedonia from 359 BC until his death in 336 BC. He was a member of the Argead dynasty, founders of the ...

Location

Meda Nunatak is located at , which is 15.35 km southwest of Bastion Peak, 8.8 km west-northwest of Fitzmaurice Point and 6.52 km northeast of Gluhar Hill. British mapping in 1974.

Maps

* British Antarctic Territory: Graham Land. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. BAS 250 Series, Sheet SQ 19-20. London, 1974.
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

Meda Nunatak.

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Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.

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. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)

External links

Meda Nunatak.
Copernix satellite image Nunataks of Graham Land Foyn Coast Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{FoynCoast-geo-stub