Kuber Peak

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Kuber Peak (Vrah Kuber \'vr&h 'ku-ber\) is a 770m peak in Delchev Ridge, Tangra Mountains, Livingston Island. Named after Khan Kuber whose Bulgarians left Panonia to settle in Western Macedonia and Albania around 680 AD, and established a state that in the early 8th Century AD merged with the First Bulgarian Kingdom.

[edit] Location

The peak is located at 62°39′21″S, 59°57′53″W which is 860 m S of Ruse Peak, 3.1 km E of Helmet Peak and 1.8 km E of Plovdiv Peak (Bulgarian mapping in 2005).

[edit] External links

• SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
• Reference Map

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