Rayko Nunatak is the rocky hill rising to 750 m 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, surmounting Diplock Glacier

Diplock Glacier

Diplock Glacier is a narrow straight glacier, 10 miles long, flowing eastward from Detroit Plateau, on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, into Prince Gustav Channel 5 miles south of Alectoria Island. Mapped from surveys by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey . Named by United Kingdom Antarctic...

 to the north and 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...

 to the southeast.

The peak is named after the Bulgarian

Bulgarians

The Bulgarians are a South Slavic nation and ethnic group native to Bulgaria and neighbouring regions. Emigration has resulted in immigrant communities in a number of other countries.-History and ethnogenesis:...

 poet Rayko Zhinzifov (1839–1877).

Location

Rayko Nunatak is located at 64°02′15"S 58°55′02"W, which is 6.67 km south-southeast of Povien Peak

Povien Peak

Povien Peak is the ice-covered peak rising to 1550 m between the upper courses of Marla and Diplock Glaciers, in the northeast foothills of Detroit Plateau on southern Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica...

, 2.3 km south of Bezenšek Spur

Bezenšek Spur

Bezenšek Spur is the 5.5 km long and 800 m wide rocky ridge rising to 900 m in the northeast foothills of Detroit Plateau on southern Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica...

, 6.04 km southwest of Mount Roberts and 6.9 km northeast of Petkov Nunatak

Petkov Nunatak

Petkov Nunatak is the rocky hill rising to 800 m in the west part of Zavera Snowfield, in the northeast foothills of Detroit Plateau on southern Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, AntarcticaThe nunatak is named after Nikola Petkov , geologist at St...

.

Maps

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