Podgumer Col

Location of Trinity Peninsula.

Podgumer Col (Bulgarian: Подгумерска седловина, ‘Podgumerska Sedlovina’ \pod-gu-'mer-ska se-dlo-vi-'na\) is the mostly ice-free col of elevation over 800 m on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica, which is linking Kondofrey Heights to the east to Detroit Plateau to the west. It is surmounting the upper course of Victory Glacier to the north, and a tributary to Znepole Ice Piedmont to the south.

The col is named after the settlement of Podgumer in Western Bulgaria.

Location

Podgumer Col is centred at 63°49′32″S 58°38′34″W / 63.82556°S 58.64278°W / -63.82556; -58.64278Coordinates: 63°49′32″S 58°38′34″W / 63.82556°S 58.64278°W / -63.82556; -58.64278, which is 1.03 km west-northwest of Gurgulyat Peak in Kondofrey Heights, 6.6 km north by west of Mount Bradley and 10 km south by west of Zlidol Gate. 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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