Papiya Nunatak ( bg, нунатак Папия, ‘Nunatak Papiya’ \'nu-na-tak pa-'pi-ya\) is the rocky hill rising to 666 mReference Elevation Model of Antarctica.
Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019 in the south 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, north of the

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of Drygalski Glacier. It is surmounting Kladorub Glacier to the northeast and

Vrachesh Glacier Desislava Cove ( bg, залив Десислава, ‘Zaliv Desislava’ \'za-liv de-si-'sla-va\) is the 3.3 km wide cove indenting for 3 km Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land west of Cape Worsley. It was formed as a result of the retr ...

to the southwest. The

nunatak A nunatak (from Inuit ''nunataq'') is the summit or ridge of a mountain that protrudes from an ice field or glacier that otherwise covers most of the mountain or ridge. They are also called glacial islands. Examples are natural pyramidal peaks. ...

is named after Papiya Peak on the

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coast.

Location

Papiya Nunatak is located at , which is 6.44 km southeast of the summit of

Ruth Ridge Drygalski Glacier () is a broad glacier, long and wide at its head, which flows from Herbert Plateau southeast between Ruth Ridge and Kyustendil Ridge, and enters Solari Bay immediately north of Sentinel Nunatak on Nordenskjöld Coast, the ...

, 6.2 km south-southwest of Cruyt Spur, 14.6 km west by south of Cape Worsley, 11.7 km north by east of Sentinel Nunatak and 8 km east-northeast of

Bekker Nunataks Drygalski Glacier () is a broad glacier, long and wide at its head, which flows from Herbert Plateau southeast between Ruth Ridge and Kyustendil Ridge, and enters Solari Bay immediately north of Sentinel Nunatak on Nordenskjöld Coast, the ...

. 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.

Notes

References

Papiya Nunatak.
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

Papiya Nunatak.
Copernix satellite image Nunataks of Graham Land Bulgaria and the Antarctic Nordenskjöld Coast {{NordenskjöldCoast-geo-stub