Chirpan Peak

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Chirpan Peak
View from Orpheus Pass to Chirpan Peak

View from Orpheus Pass to Chirpan Peak

height 535  m
location Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands
Mountains Bowles Ridge
Coordinates 62 ° 36 '54 "  S , 60 ° 13' 36"  W Coordinates: 62 ° 36 '54 "  S , 60 ° 13' 36"  W
Chirpan Peak (South Shetland Islands)
Chirpan Peak

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 .

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