Mount Pontida

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Mount Pontida
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height 1700  m
location Alexander I Island , West Antarctica
Mountains Havre Mountains
Coordinates 69 ° 14 ′ 18 ″  S , 71 ° 32 ′ 51 ″  W Coordinates: 69 ° 14 ′ 18 ″  S , 71 ° 32 ′ 51 ″  W
Mount Pontida (Antarctic Peninsula)
Mount Pontida

Mount Pontida (English; Bulgarian връх Понтида wrach Pontida ) is a 1700  m high and icy mountain in the Havre Mountains in the north of the Alexander I Island west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 14.65 km east of Simon Peak , 5.42 km southeast of Igralishte Peak , 8.26 km southwest of Mount Newman and 19.2 km north-northeast of Mount Holt . The Foreman Glacier is to the southeast and the Wubbold Glacier is to the southwest of it.

British scientists mapped it in 1971. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2017 after a submerged area on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast .

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