Tukhchiev Knoll
Tukhchiev Knoll | ||
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Tukhchiev Knoll (left in the background) |
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height | 630 m | |
location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
Coordinates | 62 ° 38 '10 " S , 60 ° 9' 47" W | |
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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.
Web links
- Tukhchiev Knoll in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tukhchiev Knoll on geographic.org (English)