Tsamblak Hill

Location of Byers Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Tsamblak Hill (Bulgarian: хълм Цамблак, ‘Halm Tsamblak’ \'h&lm 'tsam-blak\) is a rocky hill trending 900 m in north-south direction, 450 m wide and rising to 113 m in eastern Byers Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.

The hill is named after the Bulgarian scholar and Metropolitan of Kiev, Grigoriy Tsamblak (1365–1420).

Location

Tsamblak Hill is located at 62°38′20.6″S 61°00′12″W / 62.639056°S 61.00333°W / -62.639056; -61.00333Coordinates: 62°38′20.6″S 61°00′12″W / 62.639056°S 61.00333°W / -62.639056; -61.00333 which is 1.73 km north of Negro Hill, 1.45 km south of Sparadok Point, and 4.23 km east of Chester Cone (Spanish mapping in 1992 and Bulgarian in 2009).

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References

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


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