Panagyurishte Nunatak is a rocky peak of elevation 150 m projecting from Yakoruda Glacier

Yakoruda Glacier

Yakoruda Glacier is a glacier on the west slopes of Dryanovo Heights, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica extending 3.5 km in north-south direction and 2.5 km in east-west direction. Bounded by Greaves Peak, Hrabar Nunatak and Crutch Peak to the north, Lloyd Hill...

, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands

South Shetland Islands

The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands, lying about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, with a total area of . By the Antarctic Treaty of 1959, the Islands' sovereignty is neither recognized nor disputed by the signatories and they are free for use by any signatory for...

, Antarctica. The peak is named after the town of Panagyurishte

Panagyurishte

Panagyurishte is a town in Pazardzhik Province, Southern Bulgaria, situated in a small valley in the Sredna Gora mountains. It is 91 km east of Sofia, 43 km north of Pazardzhik, and 37 km south of Zlatitsa. The town is the administrative centre of the homonymous Panagyurishte...

 in central 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

Panagyurishte Nunatak is located at 62°28′44"S 59°56′12"W which is 2.8 km south of Crutch Peaks

Crutch Peaks

Crutch Peaks is a dark, rocky ridge extending 900 m in north-south direction and rising to 275 m in the north extremity of Dryanovo Heights, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica...

, 3.4 km west-southwest of Sevtopolis Peak

Sevtopolis Peak

Sevtopolis Peak is an ice-covered peak of elevation 300 m in Dryanovo Heights, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica...

, and 1.38 km northeast of Kerseblept Nunatak

Kerseblept Nunatak

Kerseblept Nunatak is a rocky hill of elevation 90 m projecting from Yakoruda Glacier on Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica...

 (Bulgarian topographic survey Tangra 2004/05

Tangra 2004/05

The Tangra 2004/05 Expedition was commissioned by the Antarctic Place-names Commission at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria, managed by the Manfred Wörner Foundation, and supported by the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute, the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy...

 and mapping in 2009).

Maps

• L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.
• L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4

External links

• Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.