Kukuryak Bluff

Kukuryak Bluff (Bulgarian: връх Кукуряк, romanized: vrah Kukuryak, IPA: [ˈvrɤx kokoˈrʲak]) is the partly ice-free bluff rising to over 700 m at the end of a ridge descending eastwards from Louis-Philippe Plateau on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. It is surmounting Cugnot Ice Piedmont to the southeast.

Location of Trinity Peninsula.

The bluff is named after the settlement of Kukuryak in Southern Bulgaria.

Location

Kukuryak Bluff is located at 63°35′53″S 58°10′14″W, which is 3.65 km south of Windy Gap, 13.54 km west-northwest of Kribul Hill, 8.41 km north-northwest of Levassor Nunatak and 6.83 km east-northeast of Hochstetter Peak. Surmounting Cugnot Ice Piedmont to the southeast and southwest. German-British mapping in 1996.

Maps
  • Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.
  • Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly updated.
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References


This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.


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