Kotlari Peak

Location of Brabant Island in the Antarctic Peninsula region.

Kotlari Peak (Bulgarian: връх Котлари, ‘Vrah Kotlari’ \'vr&h kot-'la-ri\) is the mostly ice-covered peak of elevation 1200 m in the central part of Gutsal Ridge in Stribog Mountains on Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. It has steep and partly ice-free southwest slopes, and surmounts Balanstra Glacier to the northeast and Hippocrates Glacier to the southwest.

The peak is named after the settlement of Kotlari in Southern Bulgaria.

Location

Kotlari Peak is located at 64°20′38″S 62°20′46″W / 64.34389°S 62.34611°W / -64.34389; -62.34611Coordinates: 64°20′38″S 62°20′46″W / 64.34389°S 62.34611°W / -64.34389; -62.34611, which is 4.73 km southeast of Trambesh Peak, 8.64 km west-southwest of Momino Point, 1.88 km northwest of Zelenika Peak and 3 km northeast of Mount Imhotep. British mapping in 1980 and 2008.

Maps

• Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
• British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 62. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1980.
• Brabant Island to Argentine Islands. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. British Antarctic Survey, 2008.

References

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

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.