Beroe Hill

Location of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.

Beroe Hill

Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Beroe Hill (Halm Beroe \'h&lm be-'ro-e\) is a hill of 400 m in the southwest extremity of Gleaner Heights, Livingston Island, West Antarctica. It is surmounting Perunika Glacier to the south and Saedinenie Snowfield to the northwest. The hill was named after the ancient Thracian town of Beroe, ancestor of the present city of Stara Zagora.

Location

The hill is located at 62°35′04″S 60°15′29″W / 62.58444°S 60.25806°W / -62.58444; -60.25806Coordinates: 62°35′04″S 60°15′29″W / 62.58444°S 60.25806°W / -62.58444; -60.25806 which is 1.9 km southwest of the summit of the heights, 4.7 km north-northeast of Rezen Knoll and 3 km northwest of Hemus Peak.

Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009 from the Tangra 2004/05 topographic survey.

Maps

L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.
L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009.

References

SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.

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