Simeon Peak
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| height | 1576 m | |
| location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Mountains | Tangra Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 41 ′ 31 ″ S , 60 ° 12 ′ 41 ″ W | |
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| First ascent | on January 15, 2017 by Nikolai Petkow, Doitschin Bojanow and Nedeltscho Khazarbasanow | |
 Map of the Tangra Mountains with Simeon Peak |
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The Simeon Peak ( Bulgarian връх Симеон wrach Simeon ) is a 1576 m high mountain on Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . In the Friesland Ridge of the Tangra Mountains, it rises 2.67 km south-southwest of Mount Friesland and 2 km south-southwest of St. Boris Peak .
Bulgarian scientists carried out surveys from 1995 to 1996. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2002 after the Bulgarian Tsar Simeon I (864-927).
The mountain was first climbed on January 15, 2017 by the Bulgarian alpinists Nikolai Petkow and Doitschin Bojanow and the photographer Nedeltscho Khazarbasanow.
Web links
- Simeon Peak in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Д. Боянов, Н. Петков: Отчет на проект "Върховете на Тангра планина" (PDF; 1.0 MB). Part 2 2016/17, Sofia, February 2017 (Bulgarian).