Thompson Hill

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Thompson Hill
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height 800  m
location Alexander I Island ( West Antarctica )
Mountains Sofia Mountains
Coordinates 69 ° 28 '55 "  S , 71 ° 20' 2"  W Coordinates: 69 ° 28 '55 "  S , 71 ° 20' 2"  W
Thompson Hill (Antarctic Peninsula)
Thompson Hill

The Thompson Hill (English; Bulgarian хълм Томпсън wrach Tompsan ) is an 800  m high hill on the Alexander I Island west of the Antarctic Peninsula . In the center of the Sofia Mountains it rises 4.34 km northeast of Mount Kliment Ohridski , 8.75 km east of Mount Wilbye , 6.93 km southeast of Mount Braun , 4.2 km west of Vola Ridge , 10.9 km west to north of the Lizard Nunatak and 8.12 km northwest of the Shaw Nunatak . The Nichols Snowfield is to the southeast and the Poste Valley to the northeast.

British scientists mapped it in 1971. The Bulgarian geologists Christo Pimpirew and Borislaw Kamenow visited the area on February 2, 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 a town in western Bulgaria , which in turn is named after the British major Frank Thompson (1920–1944), head of a British mission for the Bulgarian resistance during World War II .

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