Zhelyava Hill
| Zhelyava Hill | ||
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| height | 237 m | |
| location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Mountains | Vidin Heights | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 29 ′ 33 ″ S , 60 ° 8 ′ 9 ″ W | |
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The Zhelyava Hill (English; Bulgarian хълм Желява chalm Scheljawa ) is a 237 m high and icy hill on Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . On the Varna Peninsula , it forms the northern end of Vidin Heights and rises 4 km north of Passy Peak and 2.2 km south of Sayer Nunatak . The Williams Point is north, the Rose Valley Glacier to the southeast and the Saedinenie Snowfield- southwest of it.
Bulgarian scientists mapped it in the course of surveying the Tangra Mountains between 2004 and 2005. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2012 after the town of Scheljava in western Bulgaria .
Web links
- Zhelyava Hill in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)