Kokiche Col

Kokiche Col (Bulgarian: седловина Кокиче, ‘Sedlovina Kokiche’ \se-dlo-vi-'na ko-'ki-che\) is the ice-covered col of elevation 875 m[1] extending 650 m on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica, which is linking Aureole Hills to the northwest to Detroit Plateau to the southeast.

Location of Trinity Peninsula.

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, 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.

Maps
  • Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.
  • Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly updated.

Notes
  1. Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica. Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019

References

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


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