Chirpan Peak
Chirpan Peak | ||
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View from Orpheus Pass to Chirpan Peak |
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height | 535 m | |
location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
Mountains | Bowles Ridge | |
Coordinates | 62 ° 36 '54 " S , 60 ° 13' 36" W | |
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The Chirpan Peak (English; Bulgarian връх Чирпан wrach Tschirpan ) is a 535 m high mountain on Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It rises 1.4 km west of the summit of Mount Bowles , 1.1 km south-southwest of Hemus Peak and 2.9 km east-northeast of Rezen Knoll at the western end of Bowles Ridge .
Bulgarian scientists mapped it while surveying the Tangra Mountains between 2004 and 2005. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2005 after the town of Chirpan in southern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Tschirpan Peak in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)