Serdica Peak

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Location of Tangra Mountains on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.

Serdica Peak from Bransfield Strait, with Silistra Knoll to the left and Boyana Glacier in the foreground.

Serdica Peak (Vrah Serdica \'vr&h 'ser-di-ka\) rises to approximately 1,200 m in Levski Ridge, Tangra Mountains, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Linked to Silistra Knoll to the west-southwest by Kotel Gap. Surmounting Macy Glacier to the west, Boyana Glacier to the southwest, and Srebarna Glacier to the southeast.

Serdica is the ancient name of Sofia, Bulgaria.

Location

The peak is located at 62°40′52.5″S 60°03′22″W / 62.681250°S 60.05611°W / -62.681250; -60.05611Coordinates: 62°40′52.5″S 60°03′22″W / 62.681250°S 60.05611°W / -62.681250; -60.05611, which is 1.29 km south of the Great Needle Peak (Pico Falsa Aguja) and 2.83 km north of Aytos Point formed by an offshoot of the peak (Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009).

Maps

L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. 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

References

SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

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

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