Darzalas Peak is the rocky, mostly ice-free peak rising to 1300 m in the south 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, situated between Bombardier

Bombardier Glacier

Bombardier Glacier is a glacier flowing southeast from the edge of Detroit Plateau, Graham Land, and through a deep trough to join Edgeworth Glacier. It was mapped from surveys by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey , and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for J.A...

 and Dinsmoor Glacier

Dinsmoor Glacier

Dinsmoor Glacier is a glacier flowing east from the south edge of Detroit Plateau, Graham Land, joining Edgeworth Glacier to the northeast of Mount Elliott. Mapped from surveys by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey...

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The peak is named after the Thracian

Thrace

Thrace is a historical and geographic area in southeast Europe. As a geographical concept, Thrace designates a region bounded by the Balkan Mountains on the north, Rhodope Mountains and the Aegean Sea on the south, and by the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara on the east...

 god Darzalas.

Location

Darzalas Peak is located at 64°21′41"S 60°04′35"W, which is 11.28 km southwest of Trave Peak

Trave Peak

Trave Peak is the partly ice-covered peak rising to 850 m in the southeast foothills of Detroit Plateau on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica...

, 6.16 km north of Mount Elliott

Mount Elliot (Antarctica)

Mount Elliott is a conspicuous mountain, with a few small rock exposures and ice-free cliffs on the southeast side, standing 18 miles northwest of Cape Sobral and 8 miles northeast of Rice Bastion, on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. It was charted in 1947 by the Falkland Islands...

, 7.17 km east-northeast of Kavlak Peak

Kavlak Peak

Kavlak Peak is the peak rising to 1200 m in the southeast foothills of Detroit Plateau on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. It isituated in the west part of a narrow rocky ridge projecting 5 km eastwards into the upper course of Dinsmoor Glacier....

, and 29.87 km southeast of Mount Ader

Mount Ader

Mount Ader is a mountain along the north side of Breguet Glacier and just southeast of Mount Cornu, in northern Graham Land. Shown on an Argentine government chart in 1957...

 in the border area between 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...

 and 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.