Dabnik Peak
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Dabnik Peak is the peak rising to 1090 m off the west extremity of Laclavère Plateau
Laclavere Plateau
Laclavere Plateau is a plateau, 10 nautical miles long and from 1 to 3 nautical miles wide, rising to 1,035 m between Misty Pass and Theodolite Hill, Trinity Peninsula. The plateau rises south of Schmidt Peninsula and the Chilean scientific station, General Bernardo O'Higgins...

 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...

, Antarctic Peninsula
Antarctic Peninsula
The Antarctic Peninsula is the northernmost part of the mainland of Antarctica. It extends from a line between Cape Adams and a point on the mainland south of Eklund Islands....

. Situated on the east side of Misty Pass
Misty Pass
Misty Pass is a pass, 700 m high, between the head of Broad Valley and Ogoya Glacier descending north to Bransfield Strait, situated 8 nautical miles southeast of Cape Ducorps on Trinity Peninsula...

, 14.2 km southeast of Cape Ducorps
Cape Ducorps
Cape Ducorps is a point marking the north end of Cockerell Peninsula on the north coast of Trinity Peninsula. Discovered by a French expedition, 1837–40, under Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville, and named by him for Louis Ducorps, a member of the expedition....

, 11.14 km southwest of Ami Boué Peak
Ami Boué Peak
Ami Boué Peak is the peak rising to 1101 m in the north extremity of Laclavère Plateau on Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula. Situated 8.79 km south-southeast of Mount Jacquinot, 11.14 km northeast of Dabnik Peak, 8.43 km north of Kanitz Nunatak and 12.56 km west-southwest of Fidase Peak.The...

 and 9.81 km west-northwest of Kanitz Nunatak
Kanitz Nunatak
Kanitz Nunatak is the rocky peak rising to over 600 m in the southern foothills of Laclavère Plateau on Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula. Situated 8.43 km south of Ami Boué Peak, 9.81 km east-southeast of Dabnik Peak, 6.15 km north of Cain Nunatak and 9.84 km west by...

. Surmounting Broad Valley
Broad Valley
Broad Valley is a descriptive name for the broad glacier-filled valley on the south side of Laclavere Plateau, Trinity Peninsula. The name was suggested by V.I. Russell of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey following his survey in 1946....

 to the south and Ogoya Glacier
Ogoya Glacier
Ogoya Glacier is the 8 km long and 3 km wide glacier on Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula. Situated west-northwest of Laclavère Plateau, northwest of Broad Valley and northeast of Sestrimo Glacier...

 to the northwest.

The peak is named after the town of Dolni (Lower) Dabnik
Dolni Dabnik
Dolni Dabnik is a town in Pleven Province in the Danubian Plain of central northern Bulgaria. It is the administrative centre of Dolni Dabnik municipality and lies to the west of the city of Pleven. As of December 2009, the town has a population of 4,761 inhabitants.Dolni Dabnik was first...

 in northern Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

.

Location

Dabnik Peak is located at 63°28′31"S 57°58′17"W. German-British mapping in 1996.

Map

  • Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.
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