Konush Hill

Location of Trinity Peninsula.

Konush Hill (Bulgarian: Конушки хълм, ‘Konushki Halm’ \'ko-nush-ki 'h&lm\) is the ice-covered hill rising to 550 m in the north foothills of Louis-Philippe Plateau on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. It is surmounting Sestrimo Glacier to the east and Lafond Bay to the north.

The hill is named after the settlements of Konush, Haskovo Province in Southern Bulgaria.

Location

Konush Hill is located at 63°29′28″S 58°11′47″W / 63.49111°S 58.19639°W / -63.49111; -58.19639Coordinates: 63°29′28″S 58°11′47″W / 63.49111°S 58.19639°W / -63.49111; -58.19639, which is 2.03 km north of Mount D’Urville, 3.52 km northeast of Tintyava Peak, 5.64 km east-northeast of Ogled Peak and 5.51 km west by south of Argentino (Guerrero) Hill. German-British mapping in 1996.

Map

Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.

References

SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

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

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