Great Needle Peak
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 View from Bransfield Strait of Great Needle Peak (right) |
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| height | 1690 m | |
| location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Mountains | Tangra Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 41 ′ 0 ″ S , 60 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| First ascent | on January 8, 2015 by Doitschin Bojanow, Nikolai Petkow and Aleksandar Schopow | |
 Map of the Tangra Mountains with the Great Needle Peak |
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The Great Needle Peak ( Bulgarian Голям Иглен връх Goljam Iglen wrach ; Spanish Pico Falsa Aguja ) is an approximately 1690 m high and heavily glaciated mountain on Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . In the Tangra Mountains, it rises 2.1 km south of Tutrakan Peak , 2.2 km southwest of Helmet Peak and 3.3 km northwest of M'Kean Point and forms the central part of Levski Ridge . The Devnya Valley and Huron Glaciers are to the north, the Macy Glacier to the southwest, the Srebarna Glacier to the south, and the Magura Glacier to the east of it.
Bulgarian scientists conducted surveys between 2004 and 2005 and gave it its descriptive name. The mountain was first climbed on January 8, 2015 by Nikolai Petkow, Doitschin Bojanow and Aleksandar Schopow as part of the 23rd Bulgarian Antarctic Expedition.
Web links
- Falsa Aguja, Pico in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English, Spanish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Д. Боянов, Н. Петков: Отчет на проект "Върховете на Тангра планина" (PDF; 3.35 MB). 2014/15, Sofia, February 20, 2015 (Bulgarian).