Elena Peak (Vrah Elena \'vr&h e-'le-na\) is a 700 m peak in Delchev Ridge, Tangra Mountains on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands. The peak surmounts Sopot Ice Piedmont to the north and Strandzha Glacier to the south, and was named after the Bulgarian town of Elena.
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The peak is located at which is 2.29 km east-northeast of Delchev Peak and 5.13 km west-southwest of Renier Point.
The cover of the VA album Under Heaven: Vinson Massif (2010) actually features a photo not of Vinson Massif but of eastern Tangra Mountains instead, with Mugla Passage and Vaptsarov Peak in the foreground, and Elena Peak (left) and Delchev Peak (right) in the background.[1] Both the picture and the misidentification may have possibly originated in the ‘Vinson Massif’ entry of the ‘Seven Summits Quest’ website.[2]
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.
