Draka Nunatak
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Draka Nunatak is the lens-shaped rocky ridge extending 4.2 km and 1.9 km wide, with twin heights rising to 750 m on the southwest coast of Sjögren Inlet
Sjögren Inlet
Sjögren Inlet is an inlet exposed following the retreat of Sjögren Glacier, approximately 17 km long, running east-southeast from the base of Sjögren Glacier, Trinity Peninsula, into Prince Gustav Channel, north of Longing Peninsula. Entered south of Mount Wild. The inlet is named in...

 on southern 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 feature is named after the settlements of Draka and Drakata in Southeastern and Southwestern Bulgaria respectively.

Location

Draka Nunatak is located at 64°15′06"S 59°10′06"W, which is 6.32 km south-southwest of Vetrovala Peak
Vetrovala Peak
Vetrovala Peak is the rocky peak rising to 800 m in the south part of Aldomir Ridge on southern Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. It is situated at the head of Sjögren Inlet between the termini of Sjögren and Boydell Glaciers....

, 15.48 km west-southwest of Mount Wild
Mount Wild (Graham Land)
Mount Wild is a sharply defined rock ridge with several summits, the highest 945 m, standing at the north side of the entrance to Sjögren Inlet on the east coast of Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. First charted by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1945 and named for Frank...

, 38 km north of Cape Longing
Cape Longing
Cape Longing is a rocky cape on the east coast of Graham Land, forming the south end of a large ice-covered promontory which marks the west side of the south entrance to Prince Gustav Channel...

, 24.13 km east-northeast of Dolen Peak
Dolen Peak
Dolen Peak is the rocky peak rising to 800 m at the northwest coast of Larsen Inlet, Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica, situated west of the lower course of Albone Glacier.The peak is named after the settlement of Dolen in Southwestern Bulgaria....

 and 10.74 km southeast of Mount Hornsby
Mount Hornsby
Mount Hornsby is a prominent snow-capped mountain on the south side of the middle reaches of Sjogren Glacier, Trinity Peninsula. Mapped from surveys by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey...

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