Mesta Peak

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Mesta Peak
View from Bransfield Strait to Mesta Peak

View from Bransfield Strait to Mesta Peak

height 400  m
location Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands
Mountains Tangra Mountains
Coordinates 62 ° 37 ′ 13 ″  S , 59 ° 50 ′ 17 ″  W Coordinates: 62 ° 37 ′ 13 ″  S , 59 ° 50 ′ 17 ″  W
Mesta Peak (South Shetland Islands)
Mesta Peak
Map of the Tangra Mountains with Mesta Peak

Map of the Tangra Mountains with Mesta Peak

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The Mesta Peak (English; Bulgarian връх Места wrach Mesta ) is a 400  m high and pointed mountain on the Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . In the Delchev Ridge of the Tangra Mountains, it rises 1.6 km east to north of Kalojan Nunatak , 1.05 km northeast to east of Shabla Knoll and 1.95 km southwest to west of Renier Point . The eastern branch of the Sopot Piedmont Glacier lies north of it.

The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2004 after the Mesta River (also known as Nestos ) in Bulgaria and northern Greece .

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