Serdica Peak

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

Serdica Peak from Bransfield Strait, with Silistra Knoll to the left and Boyana Glacier in the foreground.

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

Serdica Peak (Vrah Serdica \'vr&h 'ser-di-ka\) rises to approximately 1,200 m in Levski Ridge, Tangra Mountains, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Linked to Silistra Knoll to the west-southwest by Kotel Gap. Surmounting Macy Glacier to the west, Boyana Glacier to the southwest, and Srebarna Glacier to the southeast.

Serdica is the ancient name of Sofia, Bulgaria.

Location

The peak is located at 62°40′52.5″S 60°03′22″W / 62.681250°S 60.05611°W / -62.681250; -60.05611Coordinates: 62°40′52.5″S 60°03′22″W / 62.681250°S 60.05611°W / -62.681250; -60.05611, which is 1.29 km south of the Great Needle Peak (Pico Falsa Aguja) and 2.83 km north of Aytos Point formed by an offshoot of the peak (Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009).

Maps

South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:200000 topographic map No. 3373. DOS 610 – W 62 58. Tolworth, UK, 1968.
Islas Livingston y Decepción. Mapa topográfico a escala 1:100000. Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército, 1991.
S. Soccol, D. Gildea and J. Bath. Livingston Island, Antarctica. Scale 1:100000 satellite map. The Omega Foundation, USA, 2004.
L.L. Ivanov et al., Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands (from English Strait to Morton Strait, with illustrations and ice-cover distribution), 1:100000 scale topographic map, Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, Sofia, 2005
L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2010. ISBN 978-954-92032-9-5 (First edition 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4)
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.

References

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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