Stryama Peak
| Stryama Peak | ||
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| height | 1700 m | |
| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Rouen Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 18 '45 " S , 70 ° 50' 10" W | |
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The Stryama Peak (English; Bulgarian връх Стряма wrach Strjama ) is a 1700 m high and icy mountain in the north of the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . It projects 6.14 km south-west of Mount Sanderson , 5.67 km west-northwest of Mount Cupola , 17.9 km north-northeast of the Serpent Nunatak , 18.52 km northeast of the center of Landers peaks and 18.15 km east-southeast of Breze peak on the west side of the Rouen Mountains . The Rosselin Glacier is north-northwest of it.
British scientists mapped it in 1971. The Bulgarian geologists Christo Pimpirew and Borislaw Kamenow visited the foothills of the mountain on January 10, 1988 together with Philip Nell and Peter Marquis from the British Antarctic Survey . The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2017 after the town of Strjama in southern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Stryama Peak in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)