Ahtopol Peak

Location of Varna Peninsula in Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands.

Ahtopol Peak from Zemen Knoll.

Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Ahtopol Peak (Vrah Ahtopol \'vr&h ah-'to-pol\) is a sharp peak 510m in the Vidin Heights on Varna Peninsula, Livingston Island. The peak is named after the Black Sea town of Ahtopol, Bulgaria.

Location

The peak is located at 62°32′34″S 60°08′42″W which is 1.28 km southeast of Miziya Peak, 4.2 km northeast of Leslie Hill and 6.58 km north of Melnik Peak.

The peak was first mapped in the Bulgarian Tangra 2004/05 topographic survey.

See also

• List of Bulgarian toponyms in Antarctica
• Antarctic Place-names Commission

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.

References

• SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.