Tintyava Peak

Location of Trinity Peninsula.

Tintyava Peak (Bulgarian: връх Тинтява, ‘Vrah Tintyava’ \'vr&h tin'tya-va\) is the ice-covered peak rising to 950 m in the north foothills of Louis-Philippe Plateau on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. It is surmounting the upper course of Sestrimo Glacier to the east-southeast.

The peak is named after the settlement of Tintyava in Southern Bulgaria.

Location

Tintyava Peak is located at 63°31′02″S 58°14′10″W / 63.51722°S 58.23611°W / -63.51722; -58.23611Coordinates: 63°31′02″S 58°14′10″W / 63.51722°S 58.23611°W / -63.51722; -58.23611, which is 2.28 km west-southwest of Mount D’Urville, 9.57 km north-northwest of Kukuryak Bluff and 13.16 km east-northeast of Lardigo Peak. 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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