Chelopech Hill

Location of Trinity Peninsula.

Chelopech Hill (Bulgarian: хълм Челопеч, ‘Halm Chelopech’ \'h&lm che-lo-'pech\) is the ice-covered hill rising to 946 m in the north foothills of Detroit Plateau on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. It is surmounting Russell West Glacier to the north.

The hill is named after the settlement of Chelopech in Western Bulgaria.

Location

Chelopech Hill is located at 63°43′28″S 58°42′03″W / 63.72444°S 58.70083°W / -63.72444; -58.70083Coordinates: 63°43′28″S 58°42′03″W / 63.72444°S 58.70083°W / -63.72444; -58.70083, which is 1.63 km north-northwest of Mount Schuyler, 4.07 km east of Zlatolist Hill, 12.95 km south of Mount Ignatiev in Srednogorie Heights, and 1.9 km west-southwest of Sirius Knoll. German-British mapping in 1996.

Map

• Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.

References

• SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

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