Mogilyane Peak

Coordinates: 63°41′13″S 58°23′01″W / 63.68694°S 58.38361°W / -63.68694; -58.38361
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Mogilyane Peak
Location of Trinity Peninsula.
Highest point
Elevation950 m (3,120 ft)
Coordinates63°41′13″S 58°23′01″W / 63.68694°S 58.38361°W / -63.68694; -58.38361

Mogilyane Peak (Bulgarian: връх Могиляне, romanizedvrah Mogilyane, IPA: [ˈvrɤx moˈɡiʎɐnɛ]) is the rocky peak rising to 950 m[1] in Erul Heights on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. It is surmounting Cugnot Ice Piedmont to the northeast.

The peak is named after the settlement of Mogilyane in Southern Bulgaria.

Location[edit]

Mogilyane Peak is located at 63°41′13″S 58°23′01″W / 63.68694°S 58.38361°W / -63.68694; -58.38361, which is 1.92 km west-northwest of Coburg Peak, 1.83 km north of Lopyan Crag and 1.55 km east of Gigen Peak, 2.39 km southeast of Drenta Bluff on Louis-Philippe Plateau, and 4.23 km west-southwest of Chochoveni Nunatak. German-British mapping in 1996.

Maps[edit]

  • Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.
  • Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly updated.

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica. Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019

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External links[edit]

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