Petleshkov Hill

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Petleshkov Hill
Astrolabe Island with Drumohar Peak (left), Petleshkov Hill (middle) and Rogach Peak (right)

Astrolabe Island with Drumohar Peak (left), Petleshkov Hill (middle) and Rogach Peak (right)

height 221  m
location Astrolabe Island
Coordinates 63 ° 18 '35 "  S , 58 ° 43' 30"  W Coordinates: 63 ° 18 '35 "  S , 58 ° 43' 30"  W
Petleshkov Hill (Antarctic Peninsula)
Petleshkov Hill

The Petleshkov Hill (English, Bulgarian Петлешков хълм Petleschkow Chalm ) is a 221  m high and icy hills on the Astrolabe Island in the Bransfield Strait northwest of Trinity Peninsula of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 1.2 km northeast of Damga Point , 1.32 km southeast of Raduil Point and 2.15 km west of Drumohar Peak . The Mokren Bight is south of him.

German and British scientists mapped it together in 1996. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named him in 2018 after Vasil Petlezhkov (1845–1876), a leader of the April Uprising , in connection with the village of Petlezhkovo in northeastern Bulgaria .

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