Gornik Knoll is the rocky hill rising to 466 m on the southeast side of Cugnot Ice Piedmont

Cugnot Ice Piedmont

Cugnot Ice Piedmont is an ice piedmont in Trinity Peninsula, about 15 nautical miles long and between 3 and 6 nautical miles wide, extending from Russell East Glacier to Eyrie Bay and bounded on the landward side by Louis Philippe Plateau. Mapped from surveys by Falkland Islands...

 on Trinity Peninsula

Trinity Peninsula

Trinity Peninsula is the extreme northern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, extending northeastward for about from a line connecting Cape Kjellman and Cape Longing. Dating back more than a century, chartmakers used various names for this portion of the Antarctic peninsula, each name having some...

 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.

The hill is named after the settlement of Gornik in Northern Bulgaria

Bulgaria

Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

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Location

Gornik Knoll is located at 63°37′36"S 57°51′22"W, which is 3.97 km west-southwest of McCalman Peak

McCalman Peak

McCalman Peak is the 550 m summit of an east-west trending ridge 3 nautical miles north of Crystal Hill, Trinity Peninsula. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Donald McCalman, Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey surveyor at Hope Bay, 1958-59.-Map:* Scale 1:250000...

, 2.71 km east-northeast of Kribul Hill

Kribul Hill

Kribul Hill is the rocky hill rising to 520 m on the southeast side of Cugnot Ice Piedmont on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica.The hill is named after the settlement of Kribul in Southwestern Bulgaria.-Location:...

 and 7.25 km south-southeast of Marten Crag

Marten Crag

Marten Crag is the rocky peak rising to over 700 m between Stepup Col and the eastern foothills of Giovannini Ridge on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica...

. German-British mapping in 1996.

Map

• Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.