St. Naum Peak
St. Naum Peak | ||
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View from Bransfield Street to St. Naum Peak |
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height | 620 m | |
location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
Mountains | Tangra Mountains | |
Coordinates | 62 ° 41 ′ 38 ″ S , 60 ° 6 ′ 21 ″ W | |
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Map of the Tangra Mountains with St. Naum Peak |
The St. Naum Peak (English; Bulgarian връх Свети Наум wrach Sweti Naum ) is a 620 m high mountain on Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . At the eastern end of the Peshev Ridge in the Tangra Mountains it projects 1.2 km east-northeast of the main summit of the ridge, 0.82 km west-southwest of the Silistra Knoll and 3 km south of St. Ivan Rilski Col on.
Bulgarian scientists carried out surveys from 2004 to 2005. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named him in 2005 after Naum (≈830–910), saint of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church .
Web links
- St. Naum Peak in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)