Skoparnik Bluff

Location of Trinity Peninsula.

Skoparnik Bluff (Bulgarian: връх Скопарник, ‘Vrah Skoparnik’ \'vr&h sko-'par-nik\) is the partly ice-free bluff rising to over 700 m in the northeast foothills of Detroit Plateau on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. It is surmounting Victory Glacier to the southeast.

The feature is named after Skoparnik Peak on Vitosha Mountain in Western Bulgaria.

Location

Skoparnik Bluff is located at 63°46′08″S 58°40′26″W / 63.76889°S 58.67389°W / -63.76889; -58.67389Coordinates: 63°46′08″S 58°40′26″W / 63.76889°S 58.67389°W / -63.76889; -58.67389, which is 3.56 km south of Mount Schuyler, 4.88 km southwest of Antonov Peak and 6.83 km west of Bozveli Peak in Trakiya Heights, and 6.89 km northwest of Bezbog Peak and 7.08 km north-northwest of Gurgulyat Peak in Kondofrey Heights, and 11.52 km east-northeast of Bendida Peak. 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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