Tipits Knoll

Tipits Knoll
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height	1000 m
location	Alexander I Island ( West Antarctica )
Mountains	Sofia Mountains
Coordinates	69 ° 32 ′ 9 ″ S , 71 ° 19 ′ 56 ″ W Coordinates: 69 ° 32 ′ 9 ″ S , 71 ° 19 ′ 56 ″ W

The Tipits Knoll (English; Bulgarian Типицка могила Tipizka mogila ) is a mountain ridge-like, mostly icy, north-south orientation 800 m long, 470 m wide and 1000 m high hill on the Alexander I Island west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It forms 3.12 km southeast of Mount Kliment Ohridski 7.33 km southwest of the Vola Ridge , 4.23 km west-northwest of the Shaw Nunatak and 8.22 km northeast of Mount Devol the southern foothills of the Sofia Mountains . The Nichols Snowfield is southeast of him.

British scientists mapped it in 1971. The Bulgarian geologists Christo Pimpirew and Borislaw Kamenow visited it 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 Mount Tipiz in the Bulgarian Pirin Mountains .

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