Ivats Peak
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Ivats Peak is the peak rising to 900 m in the southeast foothills of Detroit Plateau
Detroit Plateau
Detroit Plateau is a major interior plateau of Graham Land, with heights between 1,500 and 1,800 m. Its northeast limit is marked by the south wall of Russell West Glacier, from which it extends some in a general southwest direction to Herbert Plateau. The plateau was observed from the air by...

 on Nordenskjöld Coast
Nordenskjold Coast
Nordenskjold Coast is that portion of the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Longing and Cape Fairweather. The name was proposed in 1909 by Edwin Swift Balch, for Otto Nordenskiöld, Swedish geographer and leader of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901-04, who explored this coast...

 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. It is situated on the south side of Dinsmoor Glacier
Dinsmoor Glacier
Dinsmoor Glacier is a glacier flowing east from the south edge of Detroit Plateau, Graham Land, joining Edgeworth Glacier to the northeast of Mount Elliott. Mapped from surveys by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey...

, at the west extremity of a rocky ridge linked to Mount Elliott
Mount Elliot (Antarctica)
Mount Elliott is a conspicuous mountain, with a few small rock exposures and ice-free cliffs on the southeast side, standing 18 miles northwest of Cape Sobral and 8 miles northeast of Rice Bastion, on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. It was charted in 1947 by the Falkland Islands...

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The peak is named after the Bulgarian bolyar and warrior Ivats (10-11th century).

Location

Ivats Peak is located at 64°24′39"S 60°10′54"W, which is 2.61 km south-southeast of Kavlak Peak
Kavlak Peak
Kavlak Peak is the peak rising to 1200 m in the southeast foothills of Detroit Plateau on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. It isituated in the west part of a narrow rocky ridge projecting 5 km eastwards into the upper course of Dinsmoor Glacier....

, 7.49 km southwest of Darzalas Peak
Darzalas Peak
Darzalas Peak is the rocky, mostly ice-free peak rising to 1300 m in the south foothills of Detroit Plateau on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica, situated between Bombardier and Dinsmoor Glaciers.The peak is named after the Thracian god Darzalas....

, 5.01 km west of Mount Elliott and 3.69 km northeast of Gusla Peak
Gusla Peak
Gusla Peak is the peak rising to 1200 m in the southeast foothills of Detroit Plateau on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica, at the NNW extremity of a narrow 3.9 km long rocky ridge....

. British mapping in 1978.

Map

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