Hitar Petar Nunatak is the rocky hill rising to 462 m on the coast of Prince Gustav Channel

Prince Gustav Channel

The Prince Gustav Channel was named in 1903 after Crown Prince Gustav of Sweden by Otto Nordenskiöld of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition.The channel is bounded on the west by the Antarctic Peninsula and on the east by James Ross Island...

, facing Alectoria Island

Alectoria Island

Alectoria Island is a low, nearly ice-free island less than long. It lies in Prince Gustav Channel, about off the terminus of Aitkenhead Glacier, Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica. Surveyed in 1945 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, who named it after the lichen Alectoria which was...

 and next south of the terminus

Glacier terminus

A glacier terminus, or snout, is the end of a glacier at any given point in time. Although glaciers seem motionless to the observer, in reality glaciers are in endless motion and the glacier terminus is always either advancing or retreating...

 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 Bulgarian folkloric

Folklore

Folklore consists of legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales and customs that are the traditions of a culture, subculture, or group. It is also the set of practices through which those expressive genres are shared. The study of folklore is sometimes called...

 hero Hitar Petar

Hitar Petar

Hitar Petar or Itar Pejo is a character of Bulgarian and Macedonian folklore. Hitar Petar is a poor village farmhand, but possesses remarkable slyness, wit and wile. He is often presented as the "typical Bulgarian/Macedonian" and the perpetual antagonist of either the rich nobles, clerics and...

 (‘Sly Peter’).

Location

Hitar Petar Nunatak is located at 63°57′58"S 58°42′12"W, which is 7.35 km northeast of Mount Roberts, 4.69 km southeast of Baley Nunatak

Baley Nunatak

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....

 and 4,35 km south of Tufft Nunatak

Tufft Nunatak

Tufft Nunatak is a small nunatak 3 nautical miles southwest of Mount Bradley and 4.6 km south of Senokos Nunatak, Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Ronald W...

. German-British mapping in 1996.

Map

• Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.