Brocks Peak

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Brocks Peak
height 2300  m
location Ellsworthland , West Antarctica
Mountains Sentinel Range , Ellsworth Mountains
Coordinates 78 ° 1 '33 "  S , 86 ° 18' 34"  W Coordinates: 78 ° 1 '33 "  S , 86 ° 18' 34"  W
Brocks Peak (Antarctica)
Brocks Peak

The Brocks Peak (English; Bulgarian връх Брокс wrach Broks ) is a 2300  m high, rocky and pointed mountain peak in the West Antarctic Ellsworthland . In the main ridge of the Sentinel Range in the Ellsworth Mountains, it rises 4.58 km west of Ahrida Peak , 7.7 km north of Strahil Peak , 5.55 km east of Silyanov Peak , 11.73 km south of Mursalitsa Peak and 10 km southwest of Mount Dalrymple near the end of a ridge that branches off Ahrida Peak over 6.5 km west.

American scientists mapped it in 1961. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2014 after the Bulgarian mountaineer Helmut Brocks (1895–1969), a pioneer of organized tourism in Bulgaria .

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