Papiya Nunatak is the rocky hill rising to 550 m in the south foothills of Detroit Plateau

Detroit Plateau

Detroit Plateau is a major interior plateau of Graham Land, with heights between 1,500 and 1,800 m. Its northeast limit is marked by the south wall of Russell West Glacier, from which it extends some in a general southwest direction to Herbert Plateau. The plateau was observed from the air by...

 on Nordenskjöld Coast

Nordenskjold Coast

Nordenskjold Coast is that portion of the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Longing and Cape Fairweather. The name was proposed in 1909 by Edwin Swift Balch, for Otto Nordenskiöld, Swedish geographer and leader of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901-04, who explored this coast...

 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, north of the terminus

Glacier terminus

A glacier terminus, or snout, is the end of a glacier at any given point in time. Although glaciers seem motionless to the observer, in reality glaciers are in endless motion and the glacier terminus is always either advancing or retreating...

 of Drygalski Glacier

Drygalski Glacier

The Drygalski Ice Tongue or Drygalski Barrier or Drygalski Glacier Tongue is a glacier in Antarctica, located on the Scott Coast, in the northern McMurdo Sound of Antarctica's Ross Dependency, north of Ross Island. The ice tongue is located at...

.

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 Papiya Peak on the 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...

n Black Sea

Black Sea

The Black Sea is bounded by Europe, Anatolia and the Caucasus and is ultimately connected to the Atlantic Ocean via the Mediterranean and the Aegean seas and various straits. The Bosphorus strait connects it to the Sea of Marmara, and the strait of the Dardanelles connects that sea to the Aegean...

 coast.

Location

Papiya Nunatak is located at 64°40′23"S 60°40′31"W, which is 6.44 km southeast of the summit of Ruth Ridge

Ruth Ridge

Ruth Ridge is a black, rocky ridge 2.8 miles long in a north-south direction, terminating at its south end in a small peak. The ridge forms the south end of Detroit Plateau and marks a change in the direction of the plateau escarpment along Nordenskjöld Coast on the east side of Graham Land where...

, 6.2 km south-southwest of Cruyt Spur

Cruyt Spur

Cruyt Spur is a rocky spur 5 miles northeast of Ruth Ridge, extending 2.3 miles southeast from the south wall of Detroit Plateau, on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. Mapped from surveys by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey...

, 14.6 km west by south of Cape Worsley

Cape Worsley

Cape Worsley is a dome-shaped cape 225 m high with snow-free cliffs on the south and east sides, lying 10 nautical miles east of the south end of Detroit Plateau on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. Charted by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1947 and named for Commander...

, 11.7 km north by east of Sentinel Nunatak

Sentinel Nunatak

Sentinel Nunatak is a high, black, pyramid-shaped nunatak at the mouth of Drygalski Glacier, on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. Charted by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1947 and so named because of its commanding position at the mouth of Drygalski Glacier....

 and 8 km east-northeast of Bekker Nunataks

Bekker Nunataks

The Bekker Nunataks are a group of three nunataks lying below Ruth Ridge on the north side of Drygalski Glacier on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. They were mapped from surveys by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey , and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for...

. British mapping in 1978.

Map

• British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 60. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, UK, 1978.