Branishte Peak

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Branishte Peak
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height 2000  m
location Ellsworthland , West Antarctica
Mountains Sentinel Range , Ellsworth Mountains
Coordinates 77 ° 40 ′ 32 ″  S , 85 ° 33 ′ 40 ″  W Coordinates: 77 ° 40 ′ 32 ″  S , 85 ° 33 ′ 40 ″  W
Branishte Peak (Antarctica)
Branishte Peak

The Branishte Peak (English; Bulgarian връх Бранище wrach Branischte ) is a 2000  m high mountain in the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . In the southeastern part of Gromshin Heights on the east side of the Sentinel Range in the Ellsworth Mountains, it rises 11.45 km northeast of Mount Warren , 11.75 km east-southeast of Mount Washburn and 10.9 km southeast of Mount Mogensen . The Jamen Glacier is to the north, the Rutford Ice Stream to the east, and the Witscha Glacier to the southwest of it.

American scientists mapped it in 1961. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2014 after the town of Branischte in northeastern Bulgaria .

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