Paprat Peak ( bg, връх Папрат, vrah Paprat, ) is the ice-covered peak of elevation 650 m in

Solvay Mountains The Solvay Mountains are a mountain range that rises to 1590 m (Cook Summit) and extends in an ENE–WSW direction in the south part of Brabant Island, in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica. They were discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expediti ...

on Brabant Island in the

Palmer Archipelago Palmer Archipelago, also known as Antarctic Archipelago, Archipiélago Palmer, Antarktiske Arkipel or Palmer Inseln, is a group of islands off the northwestern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. It extends from Tower Island in the north to Anvers ...

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 surmounts Koch Glacier to the east, Chiriguano Bay to the south and Jenner Glacier to the northwest. The peak is named after the settlement of

Paprat Paprat is a village in Dzhebel Municipality, Kardzhali Province, southern Bulgaria.Guide Bulgaria
Accessed Nov 16, ...

in Southern Bulgaria.

Location

Paprat Peak is located at , which is 3.5 km east-southeast of Kondolov Peak, 4.4 km south by east of

Mount Aciar Mount is often used as part of the name of specific mountains, e.g. Mount Everest. Mount or Mounts may also refer to: Places * Mount, Cornwall, a village in Warleggan parish, England * Mount, Perranzabuloe, a hamlet in Perranzabuloe parish, C ...

, 7.35 km southwest of

Cook Summit Cook Summit () is the highest peak in the Solvay Mountains, Brabant Island, rising to between Galen Peak and Celsus Peak. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1986 after Dr. Frederick A. Cook, an American polar explorer and ...

, 7 km northwest of Cervantes Point and 6 km northeast of Mount Bulcke. British mapping in 1980 and 2008.

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 64 62. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1980.
Brabant Island to Argentine Islands.
Scale 1:250000 topographic map. British Antarctic Survey, 2008.

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)
Paprat Peak.
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

Paprat Peak.
Copernix satellite image Brabant-Island

Mountains of the Palmer Archipelago Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{BrabantIsland-geo-stub