Ustra Peak

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Ustra Peak
View from Walker Bay to Ustra Peak

View from Walker Bay to Ustra Peak

height 195  m
location Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands
Coordinates 62 ° 38 '26 "  S , 60 ° 35' 55"  W Coordinates: 62 ° 38 '26 "  S , 60 ° 35' 55"  W.
Ustra Peak (South Shetland Islands)
Ustra Peak

The Ustra Peak (English; Bulgarian връх Устра wrach Ustra ) is a 195  m high and rocky mountain on Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It rises 2 km west of Krakra Bluff and 1.8 km north-northeast of Hannah Point southeast of the confluence of the Werila Glacier in Walker Bay .

British scientists mapped it in 1968. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2005 after the medieval fortress Ustra in the eastern Bulgarian Rhodope Mountains .

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