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Baley Nunatak
Encyclopedia
Baley Nunatak is the rocky hill rising to 495 m in the southeast foothills of Mancho Buttress
on the north side of Aitkenhead Glacier
, on Trinity Peninsula
in Graham Land
, Antarctica.
The nunatak
is named after the settlement of Baley in Northwestern Bulgaria.
, 6.45 km north-northwest of Mount Roberts and 10.25 km southwest of Mount Bradley
. German-British mapping in 1996.
Mancho Buttress
Mancho Buttress is the ice-covered buttress rising to 1250 m on the northeast side of Detroit Plateau on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica...
on the north side of Aitkenhead Glacier
Aitkenhead Glacier
Aitkenhead Glacier is a long glacier flowing east-southeast from the Detroit Plateau, Graham Land, into Prince Gustav Channel...
, on Trinity Peninsula
Trinity Peninsula
Trinity Peninsula is the extreme northern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, extending northeastward for about from a line connecting Cape Kjellman and Cape Longing. Dating back more than a century, chartmakers used various names for this portion of the Antarctic peninsula, each name having some...
in Graham Land
Graham Land
Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...
, Antarctica.
The nunatak
Nunatak
A nunatak is an exposed, often rocky element of a ridge, mountain, or peak not covered with ice or snow within an ice field or glacier. The term is typically used in areas where a permanent ice sheet is present...
is named after the settlement of Baley in Northwestern Bulgaria.
Location
Baley Nunatak is located at 63°56′44"S 58°46′54"W, which is 4.69 km northwest of Hitar Petar NunatakHitar Petar Nunatak
Hitar Petar Nunatak is the rocky hill rising to 462 m on the coast of Prince Gustav Channel, facing Alectoria Island and next south of the terminus of Aitkenhead Glacier on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica....
, 6.45 km north-northwest of Mount Roberts and 10.25 km southwest of Mount Bradley
Mount Bradley
Mount Bradley is a pyramidal peak, high, at the southeast end of a ridge descending from Detroit Plateau, surmounting Znepole Ice Piedmont to the east and Dreatin Glacier to the southwest. The peak is southwest of Mount Reece in southern Trinity Peninsula. It was charted in 1945 by the Falkland...
. German-British mapping in 1996.
Map
- Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.