Lopyan Crag

Location of Trinity Peninsula.

Lopyan Crag (Bulgarian: Лопянски камък, ‘Lopyanski Kamak’ \lo-'pyan-ski 'ka-m&k\) is the narrow rocky hill extending 1.7 km in NW-SE direction and rising to 583 m in Erul Heights on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. It is surmounting Russell East Glacier to the south.

The hill is named after the settlement of Lopyan in Western Bulgaria.

Location

Lopyan Crag is located at 63°42′11″S 58°23′29″W / 63.70306°S 58.39139°W / -63.70306; -58.39139Coordinates: 63°42′11″S 58°23′29″W / 63.70306°S 58.39139°W / -63.70306; -58.39139, which is 1.98 km southeast of Gigen Peak, 2.27 km southwest of Coburg Peak, 4.96 km west by north of Panhard Nunatak, 2.64 km northeast of Siniger Nunatak and 3.63 km east of Roman Knoll. 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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