Kumata Hill is the partly ice-free hill rising to 614 m on the east side of Stepup Col

Stepup Col

Stepup Col is a snow-covered north-south running col linking Broad Valley and Cugnot Ice Piedmont, at the east end of Louis Philippe Plateau, Trinity Peninsula. The name given by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee is descriptive, as 100 ft in height is gained when the col is...

 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. It is surmounting Broad Valley

Broad Valley

Broad Valley is a descriptive name for the broad glacier-filled valley on the south side of Laclavere Plateau, Trinity Peninsula. The name was suggested by V.I. Russell of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey following his survey in 1946....

 to the north and 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...

 to the south.

The hill is named after the Kumata locality on Vitosha Mountain

Vitosha

Vitosha is a mountain massif, on the outskirts of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. Vitosha is one of the tourists symbols of Sofia and the closest site for hiking, alpinism and skiing. Convenient bus lines and rope ways render the mountain easily accessible. Vitosha has the outlines of an enormous...

 in Western Bulgaria.

Location

Kumata Hill is located at 63°33′35"S 57°49′30"W, which is 6.9 km north-northwest 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...

, 3.08 km east 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...

, 7.88 km south-southwest of Kanitz Nunatak

Kanitz Nunatak

Kanitz Nunatak is the rocky peak rising to over 600 m in the southern foothills of Laclavère Plateau on Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula. Situated 8.43 km south of Ami Boué Peak, 9.81 km east-southeast of Dabnik Peak, 6.15 km north of Cain Nunatak and 9.84 km west by...

 and 3.37 km west-southwest of Cain Nunatak

Cain Nunatak

Cain Nunatak is the westernmost of two isolated nunataks on the south side of Broad Valley, Trinity Peninsula. The name arose at the time of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey geological survey in 1960–61 and is in association with nearby Abel Nunatak, through the story of Cain and...

. German-British mapping in 1996.

Map

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