Cherven Peak

Cherven Peak (Bulgarian: връх Червен, ‘Vrah Cherven’ \'vr&h 'cher-ven\) is a rocky peak rising to 224 m on the north coast of Rugged Island off the west coast of Byers Peninsula of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Situated 1.04 km west of Herring Point, 700 m southeast of Ivan Vladislav Point, 3.9 km east-southeast of Cape Sheffield, and 830 m north of San Stefano Peak.

The peak is named after the medieval town of Cherven in northeastern Bulgaria.

Location

Cherven Peak is located at . Spanish mapping in 1993 and Bulgarian in 2009.

Map

• 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

• Cherven Peak. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

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