Abrit Nunatak
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Abrit Nunatak is the rocky hill rising to over 400 m east of Laclavère Plateau
Laclavere Plateau
Laclavere Plateau is a plateau, 10 nautical miles long and from 1 to 3 nautical miles wide, rising to 1,035 m between Misty Pass and Theodolite Hill, Trinity Peninsula. The plateau rises south of Schmidt Peninsula and the Chilean scientific station, General Bernardo O'Higgins...

 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. It is overlooking Mott Snowfield
Mott Snowfield
Mott Snowfield is a snowfield in northeast Trinity Peninsula between Laclavere Plateau and Antarctic Sound. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Peter G. Mott, leader of Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition , 1955-57.-Map:* Scale 1:250000 topographic...

 to the north and Retizhe Cove
Retizhe Cove
Retizhe Cove is the 5.8 km wide cove indenting for 6.2 km the south coast of Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. Part of Duse Bay, entered between Boil Point to the west and Garvan Point to the east....

 to the southeast.

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 settlement of Abrit
Abrit
Abrit is a village in Krushari Municipality, Dobrich Province, northeastern Bulgaria.Abrit Nunatak on Trinity Peninsula in Antarctica is named after the village.-References:...

 in Northeastern Bulgaria.

Location

Abrit Nunatak is located at 63°26′46"S 57°31′10"W, which is 4.47 km northeast of Theodolite Hill
Theodolite Hill
Theodolite Hill is a hill, 680 m, with a small rock outcrop at its summit, standing at the southeast corner of a plateau-type mountain 5 nautical miles west of the northwest end of Duse Bay, in the northeast part of Trinity Peninsula...

, 2.49 km east by south of Urguri Nunatak
Urguri Nunatak
Urguri Nunatak is the rocky hill rising to 560 m in the east foothills of Laclavère Plateau on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. It is overlooking Mott Snowfield to the north....

, 8.2 km south by east of Fidase Peak
Fidase Peak
Fidase Peak is a distinctive peak 9 nautical miles east of Mount Jacquinot, rising to 915 m at the west end of Mott Snowfield, Trinity Peninsula. Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition represents the initial letters of the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey...

 and 4.83 km southwest of Camel Nunataks
Camel Nunataks
The Camel Nunataks are two similar rock nunataks rising to , apart and north of View Point, Trinity Peninsula. The name is descriptive and has been in use amongst Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey personnel at Hope Bay since about 1959.-Map:...

. German-British mapping in 1996.

Map

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