Bruguière Peak

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Bruguière Peak
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height 2300  m
location Ellsworthland , West Antarctica
Mountains Sentinel Range , Ellsworth Mountains
Coordinates 78 ° 15 ′ 17 ″  S , 85 ° 51 ′ 45 ″  W Coordinates: 78 ° 15 ′ 17 ″  S , 85 ° 51 ′ 45 ″  W
Bruguière Peak (Antarctica)
Bruguière Peak

The Bruguière Peak (English; Bulgarian връх Брюгиер wrach Brjugiew ) is a 2300  m high, pointed and rocky mountain in the north-central Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains in the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . It rises 6.44 km northeast of Mount Giovinetto , 1.45 km northeast of Enitsa Peak , 6.83 km west of Mount Jumper , 4.58 km north-northwest of Versinikia Peak and 5.95 km north to east of Evans Peak near the At the end of a mountain ridge that extends from Mount Giovinetto over a length of 9.15 km in a north-easterly direction. The Rumjana Glacier lies to the southeast and the Deljo Glacier to the northwest of it.

American scientists mapped it in 1961 and 1988. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2014 after the French zoologist Jean-Guillaume Bruguière (1750–1798), who was involved in the discovery of the Kerguelen .

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