Mount Ignatiev

Location of Trinity Peninsula.

Mount Ignatiev (Bulgarian: Игнатиев връх, ‘Ignatiev Vrah’ \i-'gna-ti-ev 'vr&h\) is a peak rising to 1220 m in the Srednogorie Heights on Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula. It is situated 3.3 km south-southeast of Corner Peak, 8.96 km east-southeast of Hanson Hill, 12.1 km north of Sirius Knoll and 7.17 km southwest of Crown Peak and surmounts Trajan Gate to the east, Malorad Glacier to the north and Russell West Glacier to the south.

The peak is named after the settlement of Graf Ignatievo in southern Bulgaria, in connection with the Russian diplomat Count Nikolay Ignatyev (1832-1908).

Location

Mount Ignatiev is located at 63°36′37″S 58°39′10″W / 63.61028°S 58.65278°W / -63.61028; -58.65278Coordinates: 63°36′37″S 58°39′10″W / 63.61028°S 58.65278°W / -63.61028; -58.65278. 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

Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
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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