Huma Nunatak

Location of Trinity Peninsula.

Huma Nunatak (Bulgarian: нунатак Хума, ‘Nunatak Huma’ \'nu-na-tak 'hu-ma\) is the rocky hill rising to 580 m in the west part of Zavera Snowfield, in the northeast foothills of Detroit Plateau on southern Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica.

The nunatak is named after the settlement of Huma in Northeastern Bulgaria.

Location

Huma Nunatak is located at 64°06′48″S 59°00′19″W / 64.11333°S 59.00528°W / -64.11333; -59.00528Coordinates: 64°06′48″S 59°00′19″W / 64.11333°S 59.00528°W / -64.11333; -59.00528, which is 2.73 km south of Petkov Nunatak, 13.18 km northwest of Mount Wild, 4.64 km east-northeast of the summit of Kopito Ridge and 6.69 km east-southeast of Lobosh Peak.

Maps

Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.

References

Huma Nunatak. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

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

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