Tervel Peak

Location of Tangra Mountains on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Tervel Peak from Willan Saddle, with the west wall of Kikish Crag in the foreground.
Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Tervel Peak (Vrah Tervel \'vr&h 'ter-vel\) is a triple peak rising to 810 m in Friesland Ridge, Tangra Mountains on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica overlooking Peshtera Glacier and Zagore Beach to the northwest, and Charity Glacier to the southwest. Linked by Pleven Saddle to MacKay Peak in the west-southwest.

The peaks are named after Khan Tervel of Bulgaria who stopped the Arab invasion of Europe in 718 AD.

Location

The peak is located at 62°43′01.7″S 60°16′10″W / 62.717139°S 60.26944°W / -62.717139; -60.26944Coordinates: 62°43′01.7″S 60°16′10″W / 62.717139°S 60.26944°W / -62.717139; -60.26944, which is 1.19 km west of St. Methodius Peak, 1.65 km northwest of Shumen Peak, 2.51 km northeast of Gabrovo Knoll, 2.66 km east-northeast of Canetti Peak, 1.59 km east-northeast of MacKay Peak and 2.55 km south-southwest of Kikish Crag (Bulgarian topographic survey in 1995/96, and mapping in 2005 and 2009).

Maps

References

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


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