Oryahovo Heights
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 View from the Balkan snowfield to Oryahovo Heights |
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| location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 32 ′ S , 60 ° 45 ′ W | |
The Oryahovo Heights (English; Bulgarian Оряховски възвишения Orjachowo Waswischenija ) are icy and up to 340 m high mountains on the Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . They tower over a length of 6 km in north-south orientation in the center and in the eastern part of the John Paul II peninsula .
British scientists mapped it in 1968. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2005 after the city of Orjachowo in northwestern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Oryahovo Heights in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)