Golesh Bluff

Location of Trinity Peninsula.

Golesh Bluff (Bulgarian: връх Голеш, ‘Vrah Golesh’ \'vr&h 'go-lesh\) is the ice-covered bluff rising to 1400 m on the north side of Detroit Plateau on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. It has precipitous west slopes surmounting a tributary glacier that is flowing northwestwards into Pettus Glacier.

The feature is named after the settlement of Golesh in Northeastern Bulgaria.

Location

Golesh Bluff is located at 63°49′21″S 58°52′42″W / 63.82250°S 58.87833°W / -63.82250; -58.87833Coordinates: 63°49′21″S 58°52′42″W / 63.82250°S 58.87833°W / -63.82250; -58.87833, which is 13.27 km east-southeast of Poynter Hill, 6.37 km south-southeast of Aureole Hills, 11.7 km southwest of Skoparnik Bluff, and 12.59 km west of Gurgulyat Peak in Kondofrey Heights. German-British mapping in 1996.

Map

Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.

References

SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

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 Saturday, November 21, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.