Madrid Dome ( bg, купол Мадрид, ‘Kupol Madrid’ \'ku-pol ma-'drid\) is the ice dome rising to 1647 m
[Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica.]
Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019 at the southwest extremity of
Aristotle Mountains on
Oscar II Coast,
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 an ...
in
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 cont ...
. It is surmounting
Crane Glacier to the northwest and
Flask Glacier to the south.
The feature is named after the capital city of
Spain
, image_flag = Bandera de España.svg
, image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg
, national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond")
, national_anthem = (English: "Royal March")
, i ...
, in connection with the
Madrid Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty.
Location
Madrid Dome is located at , which is 12.7 km east of
Roundel Dome, 15.8 km southeast of
Bersin Ridge, 58.4 km west by south of
Cape Disappointment, 25 km northwest of
Bildad Peak and 34.2 km north-northeast of
Moider Peak
Moider Peak () is a peak, high, on the divide between Fleece Glacier and the upper reaches of Leppard Glacier, west of Mount Alibi, on the east side of Graham Land, Antarctica. It was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1955 ...
.
British
British may refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies.
** Britishness, the British identity and common culture
* British English, ...
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.
Notes
References
Madrid Dome.SCAR
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Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian
basic datain English)
Mountains of Graham Land
Oscar II Coast
Bulgaria and the Antarctic
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