Podem Peak

Location of Brabant Island in the Antarctic Peninsula region.

Podem Peak (Bulgarian: връх Подем, ‘Vrah Podem’ \'vr&h po-'dem\) is the ice-covered peak of elevation 800 m in the southeast part of Basarbovo Ridge in Stribog Mountains on Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. It has steep and partly ice-free south slopes, and surmounts Malpighi Glacier to the southwest and Svetovrachene Glacier to the northeast.

The peak is named after the settlement of Podem in Northern Bulgaria.

Location

Podem Peak is located at 64°16′37″S 62°12′22″W / 64.27694°S 62.20611°W / -64.27694; -62.20611Coordinates: 64°16′37″S 62°12′22″W / 64.27694°S 62.20611°W / -64.27694; -62.20611, which is 3.23 km southeast of Mediolana Peak, 4.54 km southwest of Einthoven Hill, and 2.7 km west-northwest of Bov Point formed by an offshoot of the peak. British mapping in 1980 and 2008.

Maps

Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 62. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1980.
Brabant Island to Argentine Islands. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. British Antarctic Survey, 2008.

References

Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
Podem Peak. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

Brabant Island seen from northeast, with Anvers Island (on the right) and Antarctic Peninsula in the background; Stribog Mountains occupy most of the central and the right, near part of the island.

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

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