Strahil Peak

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Strahil Peak
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height 2700  m
location Ellsworthland , West Antarctica
Mountains Sentinel Range , Ellsworth Mountains
Coordinates 78 ° 5 ′ 40 ″  S , 86 ° 20 ′ 2 ″  W Coordinates: 78 ° 5 ′ 40 ″  S , 86 ° 20 ′ 2 ″  W
Strahil Peak (Antarctica)
Strahil Peak

The Strahil Peak (English; Bulgarian връх Страхил wrach Strachil ) is a 2700  m high, rocky and pointed mountain peak in the West Antarctic Ellsworthland . In the north-central Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains, it rises 2.8 km northwest of Mount Hale , 8.2 km east-northeast of Mount Hubley , 8.63 km southeast of Silyanov Peak and 7.7 km south of Brocks Peak .

American scientists mapped it in 1961 and 1988. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2014 after Strachil Wojwoda , a Bulgarian rebel leader of the 17th and early 18th centuries.

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