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Kukuryak Bluff

Kukuryak Bluff (Bulgarian: връх Кукуряк, ‘Vrah Kukuryak’ \'vr&h ku-ku-'ryak) is the partly ice-free bluff rising to over 700 m at the end of a ridge descending eastwards from Louis-Philippe Plateau on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. It is surmounting Cugnot Ice Piedmont to the southeast.

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The bluff is named after the settlement of Kukuryak in Southern Bulgaria.

Location

Kukuryak Bluff is located at 63°35′53″S 58°10′14″W, which is 3.65 km south of Windy Gap, 13.54 km west-northwest of Kribul Hill, 8.41 km north-northwest of Levassor Nunatak and 6.83 km east-northeast of Hochstetter Peak. Surmounting Cugnot Ice Piedmont to the southeast and southwest. German-British mapping in 1996.

Maps

  • Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.
  • Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly updated.

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