Besapara Hill
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| height | 250 m | |
| location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Mountains | Tangra Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 37 ′ 10 ″ S , 59 ° 52 ′ 2 ″ W | |
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The Besapara Hill (English; Bulgarian хълм Бесапара chalm Bessapara ) is a 250 m high nunatak on Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . In the Delchev Ridge of the Tangra Mountains, it penetrates the ice masses of the Sopot Piedmont Glacier 0.5 km north of Kalojan Nunatak , 2 km east of Vaptsarov Peak and 1.5 km west of Mesta Peak .
Bulgarian scientists mapped him between 2004 and 2005. The Bulgarian Antarctic Place-names Commission named him in 2005 after the Thracian city Besapara in the territory of the Bulgarian town today Pazardzhik is.
Web links
- Besapara Hill in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)