Trajan Gate is the flat saddle of elevation ca. 850 m extending 4.3 km 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...

, Antarctic Peninsula

Antarctic Peninsula

The Antarctic Peninsula is the northernmost part of the mainland of Antarctica. It extends from a line between Cape Adams and a point on the mainland south of Eklund Islands....

, which is situated between Malorad Glacier

Malorad Glacier

Malorad Glacier is the 14 km long and 10.5 km wide glacier on Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula. Situated northeast of Hanson Hill, north of Srednogorie Heights, northwest of Louis-Philippe Plateau and southwest of Marescot Ridge...

 to the north and a Russell West Glacier

Russell West Glacier

Russell West Glacier is a glacier, 11 nautical miles long and 4 nautical miles wide, which lies immediately north of Detroit Plateau and flows from Mount Canicula westward into Bone Bay on the north side of Trinity Peninsula...

 to the south. Linking Mount Ignatiev

Mount Ignatiev

Mount Ignatiev is a peak rising to 1220 m in the Srednogorie Heights on Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula. It is situated 3.3 km south-southeast of Corner Peak, 8.96 km east-southeast of Hanson Hill, 12.1 km north of Sirius Knoll and 7.17 km southwest of Crown Peak...

 and Srednogorie Heights

Srednogorie Heights

Srednogorie Heights are the heights rising to 1220 m on the northwest side of Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula. Situated east of Bone Bay, west of Louis-Philippe Plateau, north of Russell West Glacier and south of Malorad Glacier...

 to the west, and Louis-Philippe Plateau to the east.

The hill is named after the Gate of Trajan

Gate of Trajan

The Gate of Trajan or Trajan's Gate is a historic mountain pass near Ihtiman, Bulgaria. It was named so after Roman Emperor Trajan, on whose order a fortress by the name of Stipon was constructed on the hill over the pass, as a symbolic border between the provinces of Thrace and Macedonia.The pass...

, a mountain pass in western 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

Trajan Gate is located at 63°36′30"S 58°35′30"W. German-British mapping in 1996.

Map

• Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.