Bohot Nunatak

Location of Sentinel Range in Western Antarctica.

Map of northern Sentinel Range.

Bohot Nunatak (Bulgarian: Бохотски нунатак, ‘Bohotski Nunatak’ \'bo-hot-ski 'nu-na-tak\) is the rocky hill of elevation 1120 m projecting from the ice cap in the northeastern periphery of Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. It is named after the settlement of Bohot in Northern Bulgaria.

Location

Bohot Nunatak is located at 77°23′37″S 85°34′32″W / 77.39361°S 85.57556°W / -77.39361; -85.57556Coordinates: 77°23′37″S 85°34′32″W / 77.39361°S 85.57556°W / -77.39361; -85.57556, which is 13.7 km northeast of Mount Weems, 10.93 km east of Pastrogor Peak, 15.96 km southeast of Lanz Peak and 5.27 km north-northwest of Ostrusha Nunatak. US mapping in 1961.

Maps

Newcomer Glacier. Scale 1:250 000 topographic map. Reston, Virginia: US Geological Survey, 1961.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.

References

Bohot Nunatak. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)

This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 7/14/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.