Tsarigrad Peak

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

Tsarigrad Peak (Bulgarian: Връх Цариград, ‘Vrah Tsarigrad’ \'vr&h 'tsa-ri-grad\) is sharp ice-covered peak rising to 1760 m in Imeon Range, Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Overlooking Armira Glacier to the southeast.

The peak is named after the 1876 Constantinople Conference (Tsarigrad is the Bulgarian name for Constantinople) of the Great Powers that determined the Bulgarian ethnic borders as of the second half of the 19th century.

Location

Tsarigrad Peak is located at 63°00′53″S 62°34′42″W / 63.01472°S 62.57833°W / -63.01472; -62.57833Coordinates: 63°00′53″S 62°34′42″W / 63.01472°S 62.57833°W / -63.01472; -62.57833, which is 2.5 km southwest of the island’s summit Mount Foster, 550 m south of Slaveykov Peak and 600 m northeast of Neofit Peak. Bulgarian mapping 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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