Radoy Ralin Peak

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

Radoy Ralin Peak from Zemen Knoll.

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

Radoy Ralin Peak (Bulgarian: Vrah Radoy Ralin \'vr&h ra-'doy 'ra-lin\) is a 720 m peak in the Levski Ridge in Tangra Mountains on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica surmounting Iskar Glacier to the east and the Huron Glacier terminus to the north-northwest. It was named after the Bulgarian writer Dimitar Stoyanov, who used Radoy Ralin as a pseudonym.

Location

The peak's highest point is located at 62°38′33″S 60°01′25″W / 62.64250°S 60.02361°W / -62.64250; -60.02361Coordinates: 62°38′33″S 60°01′25″W / 62.64250°S 60.02361°W / -62.64250; -60.02361, which is 2.25 km south-southeast of Yana Point, 620 m east of Intuition Peak and Cherepish Ridge, 1.47 km north of Helmet Peak and 1.86 km northwest of Shishman Peak (Bulgarian topographic survey Tangra 2004/05, and mapping in 2005).

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.