Mountain in Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica
Levski Peak (
Bulgarian: връх Левски,
romanized: vrah Levski, IPA:
[ˈvrɤx ˈɫɛfski]) is a
mountain in
Antarctica, rising to approximately 1,430 m (4,692 ft) in the western extremity of
Levski Ridge,
Tangra Mountains on
Livingston Island in the
South Shetland Islands,
Antarctica. It surmounts
Huron Glacier to the north and
Macy Glacier to the south. The peak was named after
Vasil Levski (1837–1873), a national hero of the
Bulgarian liberation movement.
Location
The peak is located to the east of
Shipka Saddle, 1.3 km (0.81 mi) east of
Lyaskovets Peak, 3.78 km (2.35 mi) southeast of
Kuzman Knoll, 5.37 km (3.34 mi) south of
Atanasoff Nunatak, 3.32 km (2.06 mi) west by north of
Great Needle Peak (Falsa Aguja), and 3.46 km (2.15 mi) km north by west of
St. Naum Peak.
Maps
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Chart of South Shetland including Coronation Island, &c. from the exploration of the sloop Dove in the years 1821 and 1822 by George Powell Commander of the same. Scale ca. 1:200000. London: Laurie, 1822
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South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Sheet W 62 60. Tolworth, UK, 1968.
- Islas Livingston y Decepción. Mapa topográfico a escala 1:100000. Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército, 1991.
- S. Soccol, D. Gildea and J. Bath.
Livingston Island, Antarctica. Scale 1:100000 satellite map. The Omega Foundation, USA, 2004.
- L.L. Ivanov et al.,
Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands (from English Strait to Morton Strait, with illustrations and ice-cover distribution), 1:100000 scale topographic map,
Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, Sofia, 2005.
- L.L. Ivanov.
Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2010.
ISBN
978-954-92032-9-5 (First edition 2009.
ISBN
978-954-92032-6-4)
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Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.
- A. Kamburov and L. Ivanov.
Bowles Ridge and Central Tangra Mountains: Livingston Island, Antarctica. Scale 1:25000 map. Sofia: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2023.
ISBN
978-619-90008-6-1
References
External links
This article includes information from the
Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.