Nestinari Nunataks

Location of Tangra Mountains on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.

Nestinari Nunataks from Komini Peak.

Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Nestinari Nunataks (Nestinarski Nunatatsi \ne-sti-'nar-ski 'nu-na-ta-tsi\) are a pair of rocky peaks of elevation 470 m and 520 m in middle Huron Glacier, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Situated in the north foothills of Tangra Mountains, 210 m away from each other.

They are named after the Bulgarian folkloric ritual of ‘Nestinari’ involving barefoot dancing on live embers.

Location

The higher nunatak is located at 62°38′43.5″S 60°05′19.5″W / 62.645417°S 60.088750°WCoordinates: 62°38′43.5″S 60°05′19.5″W / 62.645417°S 60.088750°W, which is 2.55 km east of Lozen Nunatak, 3.88 km east-southeast of Kuzman Knoll, 1.1 km northwest of Plana Peak, 2.6 km north-northeast of Levski Peak and 1.49 km east-northeast of Ravda Peak (Bulgarian topographic survey Tangra 2004/05, and mapping in 2005 and 2009).

Maps

• L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.
• L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4

References

• SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica

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