Hitar Petar Nunatak ( bg, нунатак Хитър Петър , ‘Nunatak Hitar Petar’ \'nu-na-tak 'hi-t&r 'pe-t&r\) is the rocky hill rising to 434 mReference Elevation Model of Antarctica.
Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019 on the coast of

Prince Gustav Channel The Prince Gustav Channel was named in 1903 after Crown Prince Gustav of Sweden (later King Gustav V) by Otto Nordenskiöld of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition. The channel is bounded on the west by the Antarctic Peninsula and on the east by James ...

, facing

Alectoria Island Alectoria Island is a low, nearly ice-free island less than long. It lies in Prince Gustav Channel, about off the terminus of Aitkenhead Glacier, Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica. It was surveyed in 1945 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Surve ...

and next south of the

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Aitkenhead Glacier Aitkenhead Glacier () is a long glacier flowing east-southeast from the Detroit Plateau, Graham Land, (south of Mancho Buttress and Baley Nunatak and north of Simpson Nunatak and Hitar Petar Nunatak) into Prince Gustav Channel (close north of Al ...

Trinity Peninsula Trinity Peninsula is the northernmost part of the Antarctic Peninsula. It extends northeastward for about 130 km (80 mi) to Cape Dubouzet from an imaginary line connecting Cape Kater on the north-west coast and Cape Longing on the sou ...

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 ...

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 ...

. 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 the Bulgarian

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hero

Hitar Petar Hitar Petar or Itar Pejo (Itar Petar) ( bg, Хитър Петър, mk, Итар Пејо or Итар Петар, meaning "''Crafty Peter''") is a character of Bulgarians, Bulgarian and Macedonians (ethnic group), Macedonian folklore. He is a poo ...

(‘Sly Peter’)".Hitar Petar Nunatak
SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

Location

Hitar Petar Nunatak is located at , which is 7.35 km northeast of Mount Roberts, 4.69 km southeast of

Baley Nunatak Baley Nunatak ( bg, нунатак Балей, ‘Nunatak Baley’ \'nu-na-tak ba-'ley\) is the rocky hill rising to 632 mTufft Nunatak. German-British mapping in 1996.

Maps

Trinity Peninsula.
Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly updated.

References

External links

Hitar Petar Nunatak.
Copernix satellite image Nunataks of Trinity Peninsula Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{TrinityPeninsula-geo-stub