Ravda Peak

Location of Tangra Mountains on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.

Ravda Peak from near Komini Peak.

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

Ravda Peak (Vrah Ravda \'vr&h 'rav-da\) is a rocky peak of elevation 664 m in Levski Ridge, Tangra Mountains, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Situated on the side ridge projecting northwards from Levski Peak into Huron Glacier. The peak was first ascended by the Bulgarian Lyubomir Ivanov from Camp Academia on 21 December 2004.

The peak is named after the Black Sea settlement of Ravda, Bulgaria.

Location

The peak is located at 62°38′52.6″S 60°07′02.2″W / 62.647944°S 60.117278°W / -62.647944; -60.117278Coordinates: 62°38′52.6″S 60°07′02.2″W / 62.647944°S 60.117278°W / -62.647944; -60.117278 which is 1.71 km north of Levski Peak, 540 m north of Komini Peak, 1.14 km east-southeast of Lozen Nunatak, 1.16 km southeast of Aheloy Nunatak, 3.52 km south-southeast of Maritsa Peak and 1.49 km west-southwest of Nestinari Nunataks (Bulgarian topographic survey Tangra 2004/05, and mapping in 2005 and 2009).

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. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4

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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