Gornik Knoll

Gornik Knoll (Bulgarian: хълм Горник, ‘Halm Gornik’ \'h&lm 'gor-nik\) is the rocky hill rising to 477 m^[1] on the southeast side of Cugnot Ice Piedmont on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica.

The hill is named after the settlement of in Northern Bulgaria.

Location[]

Gornik Knoll is located at

63°37′36″S 57°51′22″W / 63.62667°S 57.85611°W / -63.62667; -57.85611Coordinates: 63°37′36″S 57°51′22″W / 63.62667°S 57.85611°W / -63.62667; -57.85611, which is 3.97 km west-southwest of McCalman Peak, 2.71 km east-northeast of Kribul Hill, and 7.25 km south-southeast of Marten Crag. 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.

Notes[]

References[]

• Gornik Knoll. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
• Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)

External links[]

• Gornik Knoll. Copernix satellite image

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