Bolgar Buttress is the ice-covered buttress rising to 1500 m on the southeast side 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, situated between the upper courses of Pyke

Pyke Glacier

Pyke Glacier is a glacier 5 nautical miles long, flowing southward from Detroit Plateau, between Albone and Polaris Glaciers on Nordenskjöld Coast in northern Graham Land, Antarctica. Mapped from surveys by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey . Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names...

 and Albone Glacier

Albone Glacier

Albone Glacier is a deeply entrenched narrow glacier on the east side of Wolseley Buttress flowing southward from Detroit Plateau on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica...

s. It has steep and partly ice free west, south and east slopes.

The peak is named after the medieval city of Bolgar

Bolghar

Bolghar was intermittently capital of Volga Bulgaria from the 8th to the 15th centuries, along with Bilyar and Nur-Suvar. It was situated on the bank of the Volga River, about 30 km downstream from its confluence with the Kama River and some 130 km from modern Kazan...

, capital of Volga Bulgaria

Volga Bulgaria

Volga Bulgaria, or Volga–Kama Bolghar, is a historic Bulgar state that existed between the seventh and thirteenth centuries around the confluence of the Volga and Kama rivers in what is now Russia.-Origin:...

 in 8-15th century AD.

Location

Bolgar Buttress is located at 64°12′45"S 59°41′20"W, which is 4.1 km southwest of Zasele Peak

Zasele Peak

Zasele Peak is the ice-covered peak rising to 1250 m in the southeast foothills of Detroit Plateau on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica, situated between the upper courses of Polaris and Pyke Glaciers...

, 12.15 km north by west of Dolen Peak

Dolen Peak

Dolen Peak is the rocky peak rising to 800 m at the northwest coast of Larsen Inlet, Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica, situated west of the lower course of Albone Glacier.The peak is named after the settlement of Dolen in Southwestern Bulgaria....

, 5.15 km northeast of Kopriva Peak

Kopriva Peak

Kopriva Peak is the rocky peak rising to 1100 m at the south extremity of Wolseley Buttress on the southeast side of Detroit Plateau on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica...

 and 27.95 km south-southeast of Volov Peak

Volov Peak

Volov Peak is the rocky peak rising to 1148 m at the southwest extremity of Korten Ridge on Davis Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. It is surmounting Temple Glacier to the southwest....

 on Davis Coast

Davis Coast

Davis Coast is that portion of the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Kjellman and Cape Sterneck. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Captain John Davis, the American sealer who claimed to have made the first recorded landing on the continent of...

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Map

• Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993-2006.