Kokiche Col

Location of Trinity Peninsula.

Kokiche Col (Bulgarian: седловина Кокиче, ‘Sedlovina Kokiche’ \se-dlo-vi-'na ko-'ki-che\) is the ice-covered col of elevation over 800 m extending 650 m on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica, which is linking Aureole Hills to the northwest to Detroit Plateau to the southeast.

The col is named after the settlement of Kokiche in Southern Bulgaria.

Location

Kokiche Col is centred at 63°46′24″S 58°53′56″W / 63.77333°S 58.89889°W / -63.77333; -58.89889Coordinates: 63°46′24″S 58°53′56″W / 63.77333°S 58.89889°W / -63.77333; -58.89889, which is 3.5 km north of Bendida Peak, 12.15 km east by north of Poynter Hill, 5 km south by east of Tinsel Dome and 7.79 km southwest of Zlatolist Hill. 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.

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