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Mount Radotina ( bg, връх Радотина, vrah Radotina, ) is the rounded ice-covered peak rising to 1754 mReference Elevation Model of Antarctica.
Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019
in the west foothills of
Bruce Plateau Bruce Plateau () is an ice-covered plateau, at least long and about high, extending northeast from the heads of Gould Glacier and Erskine Glacier to the vicinity of Flandres Bay, in Graham Land. It borders Avery Plateau on the south and Forbidden ...
on Graham Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. It is situated at the base of
Barison Peninsula Barison Peninsula is the mostly ice-covered peninsula projecting 19 km in northwest direction from Graham Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. It is 12 km wide between Beascochea Bay to the northeast and Leroux Bay to the southwest. The ...
. The feature has steep, rocky and partly ice-free northeast and southwest slopes, and surmounts
Chernomen Glacier Chernomen Glacier ( bg, ледник Черномен, lednik Chernomen, ) is the long and wide glacier on Barison Peninsula, Graham Coast on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula, situated south-southwest of Butamya Glacier and west-southwest ...
to the northwest,
Talev Glacier Talev Glacier ( bg, Талев ледник, Talev lednik, ) is the 4 km long and 2.8 km wide glacier on Barison Peninsula, Graham Coast on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula, situated west of Cadman Glacier and southeast of Butamya ...
to the north,
Cadman Glacier Cadman Glacier () is a glacier, wide at its mouth and about long, flowing northwestward into the head of the southern arm of Beascochea Bay south of Plas Point on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula. History The glacier was discovered an ...
to the east-northeast and
Luke Glacier Luke Glacier () is a glacier at least long, flowing northwest into the head of Leroux Bay on the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. It is surmounted by Mount Chevreux on the south, Mount Perchot on the southwest and Mount Radotina on the n ...
to the southwest. The mountain is named after the settlement of
Radotina ''Radotina'' is an extinct genus of placoderm from the early Devonian of Europe Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and trad ...
in Western Bulgaria.


Location

Mount Radotina is located at , which is 12 km southeast of
Eijkman Point Eijkman Point () is the extremity of a rocky spur projecting into Leroux Bay from the west coast of Barison Peninsula on Graham Coast, Graham Land, on the west side of the entrance to Macrobius Cove and south-southeast of Nunez Point. It was firs ...
, 11.9 km southwest of Mount Rouge and 7.55 km north of
Mount Chevreux Mount Chevreux () is a mountain, high, standing southeast of Leroux Bay on the west coast of Graham Land in Antarctica. It was discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1908–10, under Jean-Baptiste Charcot Jean-Baptiste-Étienne-Augus ...
. British mapping in 1976.


Maps


Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
British Antarctic Territory.
Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 65 62. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1976.


Notes


References


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)
Mount Radotina.
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 ...
.


External links


Mount Radotina.
Copernix satellite image Mountains of Graham Land Bulgaria and the Antarctic Graham Coast {{GrahamCoast-geo-stub