Kerseblept Nunatak

Location of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Kerseblept Nunatak (on the opposite coast of McFarlane Strait) from Lozen Nunatak, Livingston Island.
Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Kerseblept Nunatak (Nunatak Kerseblept \'nu-na-tak ker-se-'blept\) is a rocky hill of elevation 90 m projecting from Yakoruda Glacier on Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The hill is named after the Thracian king Cersobleptes, 359-341 BC.

Location

The hill is located at 62°29′16.5″S 59°57′18″W / 62.487917°S 59.95500°W / -62.487917; -59.95500Coordinates: 62°29′16.5″S 59°57′18″W / 62.487917°S 59.95500°W / -62.487917; -59.95500 which is on the northeast coast of McFarlane Strait, 3.9 km south of Hrabar Nunatak, and 3.4 km west of Lloyd Hill (Bulgarian topographic survey Tangra 2004/05 and mapping in 2005 and 2009).

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References

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


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