Sratsimir Hill

Location of Davis Coast.

Sratsimir Hill (Bulgarian: хълм Срацимир, ‘Halm Sratsimir’ \'h&lm sra-tsi-'mir\) is the hill rising to 732 m at the north extremity of Korten Ridge on Davis Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. Surmounting Lanchester Bay to the west and its sub-embayment Jordanoff Bay.

The hill is named after the settlement of Sratsimir in Northeastern Bulgaria, in association with the Bulgarian ruler Tsar Ivan Sratsimir, 1356-1396.

Location

Sratsimir Hill is located at 63°51′51″S 59°54′04″W / 63.86417°S 59.90111°W / -63.86417; -59.90111Coordinates: 63°51′51″S 59°54′04″W / 63.86417°S 59.90111°W / -63.86417; -59.90111, which is 8.23 km north-northwest of Sredorek Peak, 2.78 km north by west of Bankya Peak, 2.84 km southeast of Wennersgaard Point and 7.83 km northwest of Velichkov 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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