Utus Peak

Location of Trinity Peninsula.

Utus Peak (Bulgarian: връх Утус, ‘Vrah Utus’ \'vr&h 'u-tus\) is the rocky peak rising to 1217 m in Trakiya Heights on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica.

The peak is named after the ancient Roman town of Utus in Northern Bulgaria.

Location

Utus Peak is located at 63°45′23″S 58°29′10″W / 63.75639°S 58.48611°W / -63.75639; -58.48611Coordinates: 63°45′23″S 58°29′10″W / 63.75639°S 58.48611°W / -63.75639; -58.48611, which is 980 m south-southeast of Mount Daimler, 10.97 km southwest of Panhard Nunatak, 8.45 km north of Negovan Crag and 2.58 km east-northeast of Bozveli 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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