Location of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Sliven Peak from upper
Struma Glacier .
Topographic map of Livingston Island and Smith Island
Sliven Peak (
Bulgarian : връх Сливен ,
romanized : vrah Sliven , IPA:
[ˈvrɤx ˈslivɛn] ) rises to 530 m in the east extremity of
Melnik Ridge ,
Livingston Island in the
South Shetland Islands ,
Antarctica . The peak has precipitous rocky southern slopes and partly ice-free northern slopes, overlooking
Kaliakra Glacier to the northwest and
Struma Glacier to the south and east.
The feature is named after the
Bulgarian town of
Sliven .
Location
The peak is located at
62°36′03.5″S 60°07′42″W / 62.600972°S 60.12833°W / -62.600972; -60.12833 , which is 1.27 km east of
Melnik Peak , 5.3 km southeast of
Leslie Hill , 5.77 km south of
Perperek Knoll , 2.95 km southwest of
Sindel Point and 1.68 km north of
Atanasoff Nunatak (Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009).
Maps
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 )
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly updated.
L.L. Ivanov.
Antarctica: Livingston Island and Smith Island . Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017.
ISBN
978-619-90008-3-0
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.