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Rayna Knyaginya Peak

Coordinates: 62°36′45″S 60°12′49″W / 62.61250°S 60.21361°W / -62.61250; -60.21361
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Location of Bowles Ridge on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Rayna Knyaginya Peak from Orpheus Gate.
Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Rayna Knyaginya Peak (Vrah Rayna Knyaginya \'vr&h 'ray-na knya-'gi-nya\) is a peak of elevation 680 m in western Bowles Ridge, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Surmounting Perunika Glacier to the south and northwest, and Kaliakra Glacier to the northeast.

The peak is named after Rayna Knyaginya (pseudonym of Rayna Futekova, 1856–1917), heroine of the Bulgarian liberation movement.

Location

The peak is located at 62°36′45″S 60°12′49″W / 62.61250°S 60.21361°W / -62.61250; -60.21361, which is 740 m northwest of the summit Mount Bowles, 350 m east by north of Bowles West Peak, and 800 m southeast of Hemus Peak from which it is separated by Dimov Gate (Bulgarian topographic survey Tangra 2004/05, and mapping in 2005 and 2009).

Maps

References

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