Tutrakan Peak

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

Tutrakan Peak from the southern foothills of Petrich Peak.

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

Tutrakan Peak (Vrah Tutrakan \'vr&h 'tu-tra-kan\) is a rocky peak of 810 m in the Levski Ridge of the Tangra Mountains on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica surmounting Devnya Valley to the east, and Huron Glacier and its tributaries to the north and west. The peak is named after the town of Tutrakan in northeastern Bulgaria.

Location

The peak is located at 62°39′11.8″S 60°03′25.5″W / 62.653278°S 60.057083°W / -62.653278; -60.057083Coordinates: 62°39′11.8″S 60°03′25.5″W / 62.653278°S 60.057083°W / -62.653278; -60.057083, which is 1.84 km north of Great Needle Peak (Falsa Aguja Peak), 1.93 km northeast of the summit of St. Ivan Rilski Col, 800 m east-southeast of Plana Peak, 700 m south of Sitalk Peak, 1.51 km southwest of Intuition Peak and 1.66 km west-northwest of Helmet Peak.

The peak was surveyed in the Bulgarian topographic survey Tangra 2004/05 and mapped in 2005 and 2009.

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. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4

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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