Orbel Peak

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Orbel Peak
height 700  m
location Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula
Mountains Lisiya Ridge
Coordinates 65 ° 41 ′ 50 ″  S , 64 ° 8 ′ 54 ″  W Coordinates: 65 ° 41 ′ 50 ″  S , 64 ° 8 ′ 54 ″  W
Orbel Peak (Antarctic Peninsula)
Orbel Peak

Orbel Peak (English, Bulgarian връх Орбел wrach Orbel ) is a 700  m high and rocky mountain at the Graham Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 9.4 km southeast of Paragon Point , 10.8 km southwest of Mount Radotina , 11.9 km west-northwest of Mount Chevreux and 5.1 km north of Mount Perchot at the northern end of Lisiya Ridge on the Magnier Peninsula . The Muldawa glacier is southwest, the Leroux Bay north of it.

British scientists mapped it in 1971. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2015 after the ancient Thracian name for a mountain range in south-western Bulgaria .

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