Casanovas Peak

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Casanovas Peak
In the background: Casanovas Peak (left) and Snow Peak (right)

In the background: Casanovas Peak (left) and Snow Peak (right)

height 325  m
location Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands
Coordinates 62 ° 34 '59 "  S , 60 ° 42' 43"  W Coordinates: 62 ° 34 '59 "  S , 60 ° 42' 43"  W
Casanovas Peak (South Shetland Islands)
Casanovas Peak

The Casanovas Peak (English; Bulgarian връх Касановас wrach Kassanowas ) is a 325  m high ice dome on Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . On the John Paul II Peninsula, it rises 3.1 km west of Snow Peak and 9.3 km northeast of Rotch Dome .

Bulgarian scientists mapped it in 2008. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in the same year after the Spanish mountain guide Àlex Simón i Casanovas, who held a leading position on the Juan Carlos I station between 2002 and 2006 on the first ascent of the ice dome was involved.

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