Mount Sherba

Location of Loubet Coast on the Antarctic Peninsula.

Mount Sherba (Bulgarian: връх Шерба, ‘Vrah Sherba’ \'vr&h 'sher-ba\ is the ice-covered mountain rising to 1850 m in the west foothills of Avery Plateau on Loubet Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. It has steep and partly ice-free west, north and east slopes, and surmounts Widdowson Glacier to the southwest, Darbel Bay to the northwest, and Drummond Glacier to the northeast and east.

The mountain is named after the locality of Sherba in eastern Balkan Mountains.

Location

Mount Sherba is located at 66°45′23″S 65°34′50″W / 66.75639°S 65.58056°W / -66.75639; -65.58056Coordinates: 66°45′23″S 65°34′50″W / 66.75639°S 65.58056°W / -66.75639; -65.58056, which is 13.4 km east-southeast of Rubner Peak, 11.2 km south of Voit Peak and 6.68 km west of Zilva Peaks. British mapping in 1976.

Maps

• British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 66 64. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1976.
• Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993-2014.

References

• Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
• Mount Sherba. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

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