Kolobar Nunatak
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Kolobar Nunatak is the rocky hill rising to 587 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 settlement of Kolobar in Northeastern Bulgaria.

Location

Kolobar Nunatak is located at 63°41′31"S 58°13′46"W, which is 3.59 km northeast of Panhard Nunatak
Panhard Nunatak
Panhard Nunatak is the nearest nunatak to the coast on the north side of Russell East Glacier, surmounting Smokinya Cove in Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Rene Panhard , French engineer who in 1891 was jointly responsible with E...

, 4.29 km southeast of Chochoveni Nunatak
Chochoveni Nunatak
Chochoveni Nunatak is the rocky hill rising to 650 m in the southwest part of Cugnot Ice Piedmont on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica....

 and 5.66 km southwest of Levassor Nunatak
Levassor Nunatak
Levassor Nunatak is a conspicuous horseshoe-shaped nunatak 1 nautical mile inland in the middle of Cugnot Ice Piedmont, Trinity Peninsula. Mapped from surveys by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey . Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Emile Levassor , French engineer,...

. 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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