| St. Boris Peak | |
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St. Boris Peak from Mount Friesland, with 'the Synagogue' in the foreground. |
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| Elevation | 1,665 m (5,463 ft) |
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| Location | Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica |
| Range | Tangra Mountains |
St. Boris Peak (Vrah Sv. Boris \'vr&h sve-'ti bo-'ris\) rises to 1,665 m in Friesland Ridge, Tangra Mountains, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The peak is linked to Simeon Peak to the southwest by Paril Saddle and surmounts Huntress Glacier to northwest and west, and Macy Glacier to the southeast.
The feature is named after Czar St. Boris I of Bulgaria, 852-889 AD.
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The peak is located at which is 650 m south-southwest of the island's summit Mount Friesland (1700 m), 4.34 km northwest of Peshev Peak, 1.86 km north-northeast of Simeon Peak, 4.89 km southeast of Willan Nunatak and 3.85 km south-southeast of the summit of Pliska Ridge (Bulgarian topographic survey in 1995/96, and mapping in 1996, 2005 and 2009).
The naming of this peak after a Bulgarian saint was reminded by the British press in connection with the victory of Boris Johnson in the London mayoral election on May 2, 2008, that particular day being St. Boris’s Day in the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.[1]
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.
