Vratsa Peak

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Vratsa Peak
View from the Bransfield Strait to the pointed Vratsa Peak (center)

View from the Bransfield Strait to the pointed Vratsa Peak (center)

height 470  m
location Greenwich Island , South Shetland Islands
Mountains Breznik Heights
Coordinates 62 ° 32 ′ 30 ″  S , 59 ° 38 ′ 19 ″  W Coordinates: 62 ° 32 ′ 30 ″  S , 59 ° 38 ′ 19 ″  W
Vratsa Peak (South Shetland Islands)
Vratsa Peak

The Vratsa Peak (English; Bulgarian връх Враца wrach Wraza ) is a 470  m high, rocky and pointed mountain on Greenwich Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It rises 1 km east of the Viskyar Ridge between the Targovishte and Mussala glaciers in the Breznik Heights .

Bulgarian scientists mapped it in the course of surveying the Tangra Mountains on the neighboring Livingston Island between 2004 and 2005. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2005 after the city of Wraza in northwestern Bulgaria .

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