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Oryahovo Heights

Location of Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Oryahovo Heights (in the background) from Balkan Snowfield.
Topographic map of Livingston Island

Oryahovo Heights (Oryahovski Vazvisheniya \o-'rya-hov-ski v&-zvi-'she-ni-ya\) are the ice-covered heights of elevation 340 m extending 6 km in north-south direction in central and eastern Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. They are linked to Snow Peak to the southeast by two saddles separated by the small ice dome of Casanovas Peak described by Àlex Simon i Casanovas from the Spanish Antarctic Programme in the 2000/01 austral summer. The heights were visited by a field party from the British base camp Station P during the summer season 1957/58.[1]

They are named after the town of Oryahovo in northwestern Bulgaria.

Location

The heights are centered at 62°32′09″S 60°45′00″W / 62.53583°S 60.75000°W / -62.53583; -60.75000 (British mapping in 1963 and 1968, Bulgarian in 2009).

Maps

Notes

  1. ^ G.J. Hobbs. Map showing the physiography, geological station numbers and the survey routes on Livingston Island. In: The geology of Livingston Island . Scientific Report No. 47. British Antarctic Survey, 1963. Figure 1

References

Oryahovo Heights. Copernix satellite image


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