Mount Canicula is a mountain formed of two rock peaks, 890 metre high. It stands 3 miles (5 km) east of Sirius Knoll

Sirius Knoll

Sirius Knoll is a conspicuous ice-covered knoll, 1,010 m, marking the northeast end of Detroit Plateau in the central part of Trinity Peninsula. Charted in 1946 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey and named after Sirius, the dog star.-Map:...

 on the divide separating Russell East Glacier

Russell East Glacier

Russell East Glacier is a glacier, 6 nautical miles long and 3 nautical miles wide, which lies at the north end of Detroit Plateau and flows from Mount Canicula eastward into Prince Gustav Channel on the south side of Trinity Peninsula...

 and Russell West Glacier

Russell West Glacier

Russell West Glacier is a glacier, 11 nautical miles long and 4 nautical miles wide, which lies immediately north of Detroit Plateau and flows from Mount Canicula westward into Bone Bay on the north side of Trinity Peninsula...

 in central 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...

, and is linked to Louis-Philippe Plateau to the north by Verdikal Gap

Verdikal Gap

Verdikal Gap is the flat ice-covered saddle of elevation over 750 m on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica, part of the ice divide between Bransfield Strait and Prince Gustav Channel...

, and to Trakiya Heights

Trakiya Heights

Trakiya Heights are the heights rising to 1336 m on Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula. Bounded by Russell West Glacier to the north, Srem Gap and Russell East Glacier to the northeast, Victory Glacier to the southwest and Zlidol Gate to the northwest. Surmounting Prince Gustav Channel,...

 to southwest by Srem Gap

Srem Gap

Srem Gap is the flat saddle of elevation over 700 m extending 1.35 km on Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula, which is situated between Russell West Glacier to the northwest and a tributary glacier to Russell East Glacier to the southeast...

. It was charted in 1946 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, and named by them because of the association with Sirius Knoll: Canicula is a synonym of Sirius, the dog star.

Map

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