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Yunak Peak

Coordinates: 64°22′20″S 62°17′20″W / 64.37222°S 62.28889°W / -64.37222; -62.28889
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Location of Brabant Island in the Antarctic Peninsula region.

Yunak Peak (Bulgarian: връх Юнак, romanizedvrah Yunak, IPA: [ˈvrɤx joˈnak]) is the ice-covered peak of elevation 570 m[1] at the southeast extremity of Gutsal Ridge in Stribog Mountains on Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. It has steep and partly ice-free southwest and south slopes, and surmounts Buls Bay to the southeast and Hippocrates Glacier to the west.

The peak is named after the settlement of Yunak in Northeastern Bulgaria.[2]

Location

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Yunak Peak is located at 64°22′20″S 62°17′20″W / 64.37222°S 62.28889°W / -64.37222; -62.28889, which is 2.35 km southeast of Zelenika Peak, 3.8 km northwest of Terrada Point and 5.18 km east-southeast of Mount Imhotep. British mapping in 1980 and 2008.

Maps

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Notes

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  1. ^ Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica. Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019
  2. ^ Yunak Peak. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer

References

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Brabant Island seen from northeast, with Anvers Island (on the right) and Antarctic Peninsula in the background; Stribog Mountains occupy most of the central and the right, near part of the island.

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