Atanasoff Nunatak

Location of Bowles Ridge on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Atanasoff Nunatak from Pirdop Gate.
Atanasoff Nunatak from Melnik Peak, with Struma Glacier in the foreground, and Huron Glacier and eastern Tangra Mountains in the background.
Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Atanasoff Nunatak (Atanasov Nunatak \a-ta-'na-sov 'nu-na-tak\) is a nunatak, a sharp peak rising to 523 m in the east extremity of Bowles Ridge, Livingston Island, Antarctica. The peak sumounts Huron Glacier to the south and east, and Struma Glacier to the north. The peak is “named in honour of the Bulgarian American John Atanasoff (1903-1995) who constructed the first electronic digital computer”.[1]

Location

The peak is located at 62°36′54″S 60°06′57″W / 62.61500°S 60.11583°W / -62.61500; -60.11583Coordinates: 62°36′54″S 60°06′57″W / 62.61500°S 60.11583°W / -62.61500; -60.11583 which is next east of Pirdop Gate, 3.32 km northeast of Kuzman Knoll, 1.18 km east-northeast of Maritsa Peak, 4.44 km east of Mount Bowles, 2.41 km southeast of Melnik Peak, 1.68 km south of Sliven Peak, 6.86 km north-northwest of Great Needle Peak (Falsa Aguja Peak) and 5.37 km north of Levski Peak (Antarctica). British mapping in 1968, and Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009 from the Tangra 2004/05 survey.

See also

Maps

Notes

  1. Atanasoff Nunatak entry, SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

References

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


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