Petkov Nunatak is the rocky hill rising to 800 m in the west part of Zavera Snowfield

Zavera Snowfield

Zavera Snowfield is the glacier extending 18 km in north-south direction and 16 km in east-west direction on southern Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica...

, in the northeast 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 southern 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 nunatak

Nunatak

A nunatak is an exposed, often rocky element of a ridge, mountain, or peak not covered with ice or snow within an ice field or glacier. The term is typically used in areas where a permanent ice sheet is present...

 is named after Nikola Petkov (b. 1951), geologist

Geologist

A geologist is a scientist who studies the solid and liquid matter that constitutes the Earth as well as the processes and history that has shaped it. Geologists usually engage in studying geology. Geologists, studying more of an applied science than a theoretical one, must approach Geology using...

 at St. Kliment Ohridski base

St. Kliment Ohridski Base

St. Kliment Ohridski Base is a Bulgarian Antarctic base on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.The base, originally known as Sofia University Refuge, was named in 1993 "for St...

 in 1995/96 and subsequent seasons, and program organizer of the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute

Bulgarian Antarctic Institute

Bulgarian Antarctic Institute is the national Antarctic operator of Bulgaria, organizing annual Antarctic campaigns and maintaining the Bulgarian Antarctic base of St. Kliment Ohridski on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands...

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Location

Petkov Nunatak is located at 64°05′21"S 58°59′43"W, which is 6.9 km southwest of Rayko Nunatak

Rayko Nunatak

Rayko Nunatak is the rocky hill rising to 750 m in the northeast foothills of Detroit Plateau on southern Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica, surmounting Diplock Glacier to the north and Zavera Snowfield to the southeast....

, 15.32 km north-northwest of Mount Wild

Mount Wild (Graham Land)

Mount Wild is a sharply defined rock ridge with several summits, the highest 945 m, standing at the north side of the entrance to Sjögren Inlet on the east coast of Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. First charted by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1945 and named for Frank...

, 2.73 km north of Huma Nunatak

Huma Nunatak

Huma Nunatak is the rocky hill rising to 580 m in the west part of Zavera Snowfield, in the northeast foothills of Detroit Plateau on southern Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica....

 and 7.11 km east by north of Lobosh Peak

Lobosh Peak

Lobosh Peak is the ice-covered peak rising to 1000 m in the southeast foothills of Detroit Plateau on southern Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica, east of the upper course of Boydell Glacier...

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Maps

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