Batkun Peak is the peak rising to 1100 m in the southeast foothills of Detroit Plateau

Detroit Plateau

Detroit Plateau is a major interior plateau of Graham Land, with heights between 1,500 and 1,800 m. Its northeast limit is marked by the south wall of Russell West Glacier, from which it extends some in a general southwest direction to Herbert Plateau. The plateau was observed from the air by...

 on Nordenskjöld Coast

Nordenskjold Coast

Nordenskjold Coast is that portion of the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Longing and Cape Fairweather. The name was proposed in 1909 by Edwin Swift Balch, for Otto Nordenskiöld, Swedish geographer and leader of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901-04, who explored this coast...

 in Graham Land

Graham Land

Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...

, Antarctica. It is situated in the west part of Grivitsa Ridge

Grivitsa Ridge

Grivitsa Ridge is the mostly ice-free ridge extending 6.4 km in northwest-southeast direction, 3 km wide and rising to 1100 m on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica...

, surmounting Darvari Glacier

Darvari Glacier

Darvari Glacier is the 9 km long in northwest-southeast direction and 1.7 km wide glacier on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. It drains the southeast slopes of Detroit Plateau, flowing between Rice Bastion and Grivitsa Ridge, and entering Mundraga Bay in Weddell Sea 6 km north of...

 to the north and Zaychar Glacier

Zaychar Glacier

Zaychar Glacier is the 7.5 km long and 2.7 km wide glacier on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. It drains the southeast slopes of Detroit Plateau, flowing east-southeastwards between Grivitsa Ridge and Kableshkov Ridge, and entering Odrin Cove in Weddell Sea 5 km northwest of...

 to the south.

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

Location

Batkun Peak is located at 64°30′13"S 60°21′29"W, which is 9.77 km southwest of Gusla Peak

Gusla Peak

Gusla Peak is the peak rising to 1200 m in the southeast foothills of Detroit Plateau on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica, at the NNW extremity of a narrow 3.9 km long rocky ridge....

, 9.43 km northwest of Fothergill Point

Fothergill Point

Fothergill Point is a low rocky coastal point 6.6 miles northeast of Cape Worsley, on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Ian L. Fothergill, leader and meteorological assistant at the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey ...

, 3.43 km north-northeast of Kableshkov Ridge

Kableshkov Ridge

Kableshkov Ridge is the rocky ridge extending 4.5 km in east-southeast direction, 1.5 km wide and rising to 550 m on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica...

, and 23.22 km southeast of Baldwin Peak

Baldwin Peak

Baldwin Peak is a peak between Lilienthal Glacier and Mount Berry in northern Graham Land. It was photographed by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition in 1956–57 and mapped from these photos by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey...

 on Danco Coast

Danco Coast

Danco Coast is that portion of the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Sterneck and Cape Renard. This coast was explored in January and February 1898 by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Gerlache, who named it for Lieutenant Emile Danco who died on the expedition....

. British mapping in 1978.

Maps

• British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 60. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, UK, 1978.
• Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993-2006.