Blesna Peak
| Blesna Peak | ||
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| height | 1300 m | |
| location | Brabant Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Mountains | Stribog Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 10 '23 " S , 62 ° 17' 25" W | |
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The Blesna Peak (English; Bulgarian връх Блесна wrach Blesna ) is a 1300 m high and icy mountain on the Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . In the northeastern part of the Stribog Mountains it rises 7.4 km east of Mount Rokitansky , 7.15 km south of Virchow Hill , 6.12 km southwest of Mount Cabeza , 9.82 km west to north of Petroff Point and 6.95 km northwest of Opizo Peak . The Paré Glacier lies to the west and north of it, the Laënnec Glacier to the southeast.
British scientists mapped it in 1980 and 2008. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2015 after the Roman camp of Blesna in southern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Blesna Peak in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)