Canetti Peak

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

Canetti Peak, with Zagore Beach on the left and Charity Glacier on the right.

Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Canetti Peak (Vrah Kaneti \'vr&h ka-'ne-ti\) is a 400 m peak in the Friesland Ridge, Tangra Mountains, eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The peak has precipitous and ice-free western slopes and overlooks Zagore Beach and False Bay to the west and north, and Charity Glacier to the south. The peak was named after Elias Canetti (1905–1994), a Bulgarian-born Nobel laureate in literature.

Location

The peak is located at 62°43′25.3″S 60°19′10″W / 62.723694°S 60.31944°W / -62.723694; -60.31944Coordinates: 62°43′25.3″S 60°19′10″W / 62.723694°S 60.31944°W / -62.723694; -60.31944 which is 1.06 km west-southwest of MacKay Peak, 2.13 km north by west of the summit of Veleka Ridge and 1.62 km south-southeast of Ogosta Point.

The peak was mapped by Bulgaria 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 Gazetteer of Antarctica

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