Academia Peak

Academia Peak
Elevation	~ 1,130 metres {~ 3,707 feet}
Location
Location	Livingston Island, Antarctica
Range	Tangra Mountains
Coordinates	62°40′13″S 60°12′30″W

Academia Peak (Vrah Akademiya \'vr&h a-ka-'de-mi-ya\) is a peak rising to approximately 1,130m in the Friesland Ridge, Tangra Mountains, eastern Livingston Island, Antarctica. The peak has precipitous and ice-free north-western slopes and surmounts Huntress Glacier to the northwest and southwest.

Location

The peak is located 1 km northwest of St. Boris Peak, 2.96 km south by southeast of the summit of Pliska Ridge and 3.9 km east by southeast of Willan Nunatak. Named for the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (established 1869) for its important role in the Bulgarian Antarctic research.

The peak was first mapped by Bulgaria in 2005.

See also

• Bulgarian toponyms in Antarctica
• Antarctic Place-names Commission

Maps

Location of Tangra Mountains on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.

• 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.

External links

• Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica: Academia Peak.
• Reference Map

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