Benkovski Nunatak

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Location of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands.

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Benkovski Nunatak from Bransfield Strait, with Parchevich Ridge on the left and Bogdan Ridge on the right.

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Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Benkovski Nunatak (\ben-'kov-ski 'nu-na-tak\) is a rocky peak of elevation 450 m projecting from the ice cap of Greenwich Island in the northeast extremity of Breznik Heights.

The peak was named after Georgi Benkovski (1843–76), a leader of the 1876 April Uprising for Bulgarian independence.

Location

Benkovski Nunatak is located at , which is 920 m west-southwest of Bogdan Ridge, and 690 m north of Parchevich Ridge. Overlooking Gruev Cove to the east. Bulgarian topographic survey Tangra 2004/05.

Maps

• L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. Template:ISBN

References

• Benkovski Nunatak. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
• Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)

External links

• Benkovski Nunatak. Copernix satellite image

This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.

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