Tran Crag
Location of Tangra Mountains on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Tran Crag from Willan Saddle, with Huntress Glacier in the foreground.
Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.
Tran Crag (Transki Kamak \'tr&n-ski 'ka-m&k\) rises to 490 m in the Tangra Mountains of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and projects from the tributary glacier draining the west slopes of Friesland Ridge between St. Boris Peak and Simeon Peak. It is named after the town of Tran in Western Bulgaria.
Location
The crag is located at 62°40′47.8″S 60°14′03″W / 62.679944°S 60.23417°WCoordinates: 62°40′47.8″S 60°14′03″W / 62.679944°S 60.23417°W, which is 1.94 km west-southwest of St. Boris Peak, 1.39 km north-northeast of Stambolov Crag and 3.7 km southeast of Willan Nunatak.
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
External links
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.
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