Dragor Hill
Encyclopedia
Dragor Hill is the hill rising to 748 m east of Whitecloud Glacier
on Trinity Peninsula
, Antarctic Peninsula
. Situated 7.85 km southeast of Nikyup Point
, 2.85 km south of Almond Point
and 1.85 km west-northwest of Borovan Knoll
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The hill is named after the settlement of Dragor in southern Bulgaria
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Whitecloud Glacier
Whitecloud Glacier is a glacier which flows northward to discharge into Charcot Bay just west of Almond Point, Trinity Peninsula. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960. The name is descriptive of cloud conditions that prevailed at the time of 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...
, Antarctic Peninsula
Antarctic Peninsula
The Antarctic Peninsula is the northernmost part of the mainland of Antarctica. It extends from a line between Cape Adams and a point on the mainland south of Eklund Islands....
. Situated 7.85 km southeast of Nikyup Point
Nikyup Point
Nikyup Point is the point next east of Andrew Glacier terminus on Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula. Situated 12.65 km south-southeast of Radibosh Point, 6.3 km northeast of Velichkov Knoll, 6.76 km west of Almond Point and 19.2 km southwest of Cape Kjellman...
, 2.85 km south of Almond Point
Almond Point
Almond Point is a rocky point between Whitecloud Glacier and McNeile Glacier at the head of Charcot Bay, Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica. Charted in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey who applied the name because of the distinctive shape of the point....
and 1.85 km west-northwest of Borovan Knoll
Borovan Knoll
Borovan Knoll is the hill rising to 878 m on the west coast of Lindblad Cove on Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula. Situated 1.85 km east-southeast of Dragor Hill and 3.88 km south-southeast of Almond Point, which is formed by an offshoot of the hill....
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The hill is named after the settlement of Dragor in southern Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
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Location
Dragor Hill is located at 63°54′20"S 59°30′57"W. German-British mapping in 1996.Map
- Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.