Kukuryak Bluff
Kukuryak Bluff (Bulgarian: рид Кукуряк, romanized: rid Kukuryak, IPA: [ˈrid kokoˈrʲak]) is the partly ice-free bluff rising to 739 m[1] at the end of a ridge descending eastwards from Louis-Philippe Plateau on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. It is surmounting Cugnot Ice Piedmont to the southeast.
The bluff is named after the settlement of Kukuryak in Southern Bulgaria.
Location
Kukuryak Bluff is located at 63°35′53″S 58°10′14″W, which is 3.65 km south of Windy Gap, 13.54 km west-northwest of Kribul Hill, 8.41 km north-northwest of Levassor Nunatak and 6.83 km east-northeast of Hochstetter Peak. Surmounting Cugnot Ice Piedmont to the southeast and southwest. 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
- Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica. Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019
References
- Kukuryak Bluff. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
- Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
External links
- Kukuryak Bluff. Copernix satellite image
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.