Tukhchiev Knoll

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Tukhchiev Knoll
Tukhchiev Knoll (left in the background)

Tukhchiev Knoll (left in the background)

height 630  m
location Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands
Coordinates 62 ° 38 '10 "  S , 60 ° 9' 47"  W Coordinates: 62 ° 38 '10 "  S , 60 ° 9' 47"  W
Tukhchiev Knoll (South Shetland Islands)
Tukhchiev Knoll

The Tukhchiev Knoll (optionally also Tuhchiev Knoll and Kuzman Knoll , Bulgarian Могила Кузманова Mogila Kusmanowa , German ' Kusmanow Hill' ) is a single, icy and 630  m high hill in the east of Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It rises about 1.3 km east of the center of the Wörner Gap , 3.6 km east-northeast of the Plíska Ridge , 4.3 km north-northeast of Mount Friesland and 2.9 km southeast of Mount Bowles . It represents a landmark above the Huron and upper Perunika glaciers that can be seen from afar .

Bulgarian scientists named him in 1996 after Kusman Tuchschijew, participant in a Bulgarian Antarctic expedition carried out from 1993 to 1994 and head of the St. Kliment-Ohridski station in two successive Antarctic summer campaigns between 1994 and 1996. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee assigned the name 1997 using the family name in English.

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