Survakari Nunatak is the rocky hill rising to 600 m in upper Sjögren Glacier

Sjogren Glacier

Sjogren Glacier is a glacier 12.5 miles long in the south part of Trinity Peninsula, flowing southeast from Detroit Plateau to enter Prince Gustav Channel at the head of Sjögren Inlet, south of the terminus of Boydell Glacier. Discovered in 1903 by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition under...

, in the southeast 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 the Bulgarian New Year

New Year

The New Year is the day that marks the time of the beginning of a new calendar year, and is the day on which the year count of the specific calendar used is incremented. For many cultures, the event is celebrated in some manner....

’s folkloric

Folklore

Folklore consists of legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales and customs that are the traditions of a culture, subculture, or group. It is also the set of practices through which those expressive genres are shared. The study of folklore is sometimes called...

 ritual of ‘Survakari’.

Location

Survakari Nunatak is located at 64°09′40"S 59°14′45"W, which is 5.66 km south-southeast of Seydol Crag

Seydol Crag

Seydol Crag is the narrow, rocky ridge extending 2.9 km and rising to 800 m in the southeast foothills of Detroit Plateau on southern Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica...

, 4.09 km west-southwest of Mureno Peak

Mureno Peak

Mureno Peak is the rocky, mostly ice-free peak rising to 1100 m in the north part of Aldomir Ridge on southern Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica, between Sjögren and Boydell Glaciers....

, 8.2 km northwest of Vetrovala Peak

Vetrovala Peak

Vetrovala Peak is the rocky peak rising to 800 m in the south part of Aldomir Ridge on southern Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. It is situated at the head of Sjögren Inlet between the termini of Sjögren and Boydell Glaciers....

 and 6.29 km northeast of Mount Hornsby

Mount Hornsby

Mount Hornsby is a prominent snow-capped mountain on the south side of the middle reaches of Sjogren Glacier, Trinity Peninsula. Mapped from surveys by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey...

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Maps

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