Crutch Peaks

Location of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Crutch Peaks (in the central background) from near Ravda Peak, Livingston Island, with McFarlane Strait, Inott Point and Edinburgh Hill in the middle ground.

Crutch Peaks is a dark, rocky ridge extending 900 m in north-south direction and rising to 275 m in the north extremity of Dryanovo Heights, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The peak surmounts Yakoruda Glacier to the south-southwest, Teteven Glacier to the south-southeast, and Miletich Point and Kabile Island to the north.

The feature was charted by the Discovery Investigations and named descriptively.

Location

The peaks are centred at 62°27′12.7″S 59°56′15.1″W / 62.453528°S 59.937528°W / -62.453528; -59.937528 which is 840 m south of Miletich Point, 2.25 km west-southwest of Aprilov Point, 3.55 northwest of Sevtopolis Peak, 2.82 km north of Panagyurishte Nunatak, 2.67 km east of Greaves Peak and 1.19 km east of Hrabar Nunatak (British mapping in 1935 and 1968, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009).

See also

Maps

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