Gleaner Heights

Gleaner Heights is a series of elevations extending southwest from Leslie Hill in the eastern part of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Named by the UK-APC in 1958 after the American brig Gleaner, which was diverted to sealing in the South Shetland Islands in 1820-21.

First ascent by the Bulgarian Doychin Vasilev from Camp Academia on 25 December 2004.

Location

The summit of the heights is located at which is 5 km north by west of Mount Bowles, 5.05 km northwest of Melnik Peak and 1.43 km west-southwest of Leslie Hill (British mapping in 1968, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009).

Maps

• L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands (from English Strait to Morton Strait, with illustrations and ice-cover distribution). 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

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Gleaner Heights" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).