Yarlovo Nunatak

Location of Trinity Peninsula.

Yarlovo Nunatak (Bulgarian: Ярловски нунатак, ‘Yarlovski nunatak’ \'yar-lov-ski 'nu-na-tak\) is the rocky hill rising to 744 m in the north foothills of Giovannini (Lobell) Ridge on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. It is surmounting Broad Valley to the north.

The nunatak is named after the settlement of Yarlovo in Western Bulgaria.

Location

Yarlovo Nunatak is located at 63°32′52″S 57°58′17″W / 63.54778°S 57.97139°W / -63.54778; -57.97139Coordinates: 63°32′52″S 57°58′17″W / 63.54778°S 57.97139°W / -63.54778; -57.97139, which is 4.53 km west-northwest of Marten Crag, 6.72 km south of Prilep Knoll and 11.48 km southwest of Kanitz Nunatak. German-British mapping in 1996.

Map

Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.

References

SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

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

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