Radko Knoll
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 Map of the Byers Peninsula ( Livingston Island ) with Rugged Island (left) and the Radko Knoll |
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| height | 102 m | |
| location | Rugged Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 37 ′ 15 " S , 61 ° 17 ′ 31" W | |
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The Radko Knoll (English; Bulgarian Радкова могила Radkowa mogila ) is a 102 m high and rocky hill in the northwest of Rugged Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It rises 0.83 km south-southeast of Cape Sheffield and 0.86 km north-northeast of Ugain Point on the north bank of Smyadovo Cove .
Spanish scientists mapped it in 1992, Bulgarian in 2009 and 2010. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2009 after the Bulgarian resistance fighter Ivan "Radko" Michajlow (1896–1990).
Web links
- Radko Knoll in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)