Chochoveni Nunatak
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Chochoveni Nunatak is the rocky hill rising to 650 m in the southwest part of Cugnot Ice Piedmont
Cugnot Ice Piedmont
Cugnot Ice Piedmont is an ice piedmont in Trinity Peninsula, about 15 nautical miles long and between 3 and 6 nautical miles wide, extending from Russell East Glacier to Eyrie Bay and bounded on the landward side by Louis Philippe Plateau. Mapped from surveys by Falkland Islands...

 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.

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 settlements of Golyamo (Great) Chochoveni and Malko (Little) Chochoveni in Southeastern Bulgaria.

Location

Chochoveni Nunatak is located at 63°40′21"S 58°18′16"W, which is 3.87 km south by east of Smin Peak
Smin Peak
Smin Peak is the partly ice-free peak rising to 850 m in the southeast foothills of Louis-Philippe Plateau on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica...

, 4.29 km northwest of Kolobar Nunatak
Kolobar Nunatak
Kolobar Nunatak is the rocky hill rising to 587 m in the southwest part of Cugnot Ice Piedmont on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica.The nunatak is named after the settlement of Kolobar in Northeastern Bulgaria.-Location:...

, 3.34 km northeast of Coburg Peak
Coburg Peak
Coburg Peak is the rocky peak rising to 783 m in Erul Heights on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. It is surmounting Cugnot Ice Piedmont to the northeast.The peak is named after the Bulgarian royal house of Coburg , 1887-1946....

 and 5.75 km east of Drenta Bluff
Drenta Bluff
Drenta Bluff is the ice-covered bluff of elevation 1076 m forming the south extremity of Louis-Philippe Plateau on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica...

. 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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