Battenberg Hill
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 Map of the Byers Peninsula ( Livingston Island ) with Battenberg Hill |
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| height | 166 m | |
| location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Mountains | Dospey Heights | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 35 ′ 44 ″ S , 61 ° 8 ′ 31 ″ W | |
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The Battenberg Hill (English; Bulgarian хълм Батенберг chalm Batenberg ) is a 166 m high and rocky hill on Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It rises 1.8 km east of Start Hill , 1.8 km south of Voyteh Point and 2.19 km northwest of Penca Hill in the Dospey Heights of the Ray Promontory on the Byers Peninsula .
Spanish scientists mapped it in 1992, Bulgarian in 2009 and 2010. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2009 after Prince Alexander Joseph von Battenberg (1857-1893), elected Prince of Bulgaria from 1879 to 1886 .
Web links
- Battenberg Hill in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)