Siniger Nunatak

Location of Trinity Peninsula.

Siniger Nunatak (Bulgarian: нунатак Синигер, ‘Nunatak Siniger’ \'nu-na-tak si-'ni-ger\) is the rocky hill rising to over 500 m in the upper course of Russell East Glacier on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica.

The nunatak is named after the settlement of Siniger in Southern Bulgaria.

Location

Siniger Nunatak is located at 63°43′23″S 58°25′12″W / 63.72306°S 58.42000°W / -63.72306; -58.42000Coordinates: 63°43′23″S 58°25′12″W / 63.72306°S 58.42000°W / -63.72306; -58.42000, which is 2.97 km northeast of Morava Peak in Trakiya Heights, 4.65 km east of Mount Canicula, 3.85 km south of Gigen Peak in Erul Heights, and 6.54 km west-southwest of Panhard Nunatak. 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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