Shabla Knoll

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

Shabla Knoll from Bransfield Strait, with Tryavna Peak in the background.

Shabla Knoll (Vrah Shabla \'vr&h 'sha-bla\) rises to over 400 m (1,312 ft) in Delchev Ridge, Tangra Mountains, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica surmounting Sopot Ice Piedmont to the north and Pautalia Glacier to the southwest.

The knoll is named after the Bulgarian town of Shabla and the nearby Shabla Point on the Black Sea coast.

Location

The knoll is located at 62°37′30.7″S 59°51′04.5″W / 62.625194°S 59.851250°W / -62.625194; -59.851250Coordinates: 62°37′30.7″S 59°51′04.5″W / 62.625194°S 59.851250°W / -62.625194; -59.851250, which is 2.31 km (1 mi) east-northeast of Elena Peak, 660 m (2,165 ft) southeast of Kaloyan Nunatak, 1.05 km (1 mi) southwest of Mesta Peak and 2.91 km (2 mi) southwest of Renier Point (Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009 from the Tangra 2004/05 survey).

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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