Rayna Knyaginya Peak
Rayna Knyaginya Peak | ||
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View from Orpheus Gate to Rayna Knyaginya Peak |
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height | 680 m | |
location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
Mountains | Bowles Ridge | |
Coordinates | 62 ° 36 '45 " S , 60 ° 12' 49" W | |
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The Rayna Knyaginya Peak (English; Bulgarian връх Райна Княгиня wrach Rajna Knjaginja ) is a 680 m high mountain on the Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It rises 0.86 km northwest of Mount Bowles , 0.93 km southeast of Hemus Peak and 0.5 km east of Bowles West Peak in the western part of Bowles Ridge .
Bulgarian scientists mapped it in the course of surveying the Tangra Mountains between 2004 and 2005. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2005 after the Bulgarian freedom fighter Rajna Knjaginja (actually Rajna Futekowa, 1856–1917).
Web links
- Rayna Knyaginya Peak in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)