Smin Peak

Location of Trinity Peninsula.

Smin Peak (Bulgarian: връх Смин, ‘Vrah Smin’ \'vr&h 'smin\) is the partly ice-free peak rising to 850 m in the southeast foothills of Louis-Philippe Plateau on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. It is surmounting Cugnot Ice Piedmont to the east and south.

The peak is named after the settlement of Smin in Northeastern Bulgaria.

Location

Smin Peak is located at 63°38′17″S 58°18′53″W / 63.63806°S 58.31472°W / -63.63806; -58.31472Coordinates: 63°38′17″S 58°18′53″W / 63.63806°S 58.31472°W / -63.63806; -58.31472, which is 2.69 km south by west of Hochstetter Peak, 10.06 km west-northwest of Levassor Nunatak, 3.87 km north of Chochoveni Nunatak and 6.61 km northeast of Drenta Bluff. 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.

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