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Belozem Hill

Belozem Hill (Halm Belozem \'h&lm be-lo-'zem) is the northeasternmost of a chain of hills along Bulgarian Beach on Hurd Peninsula in the east of Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands in Antarctica. The hill is boulder-clay capped with twin peaks; the higher east-northeastern of them rising to 41m. The hill is snow free in summer. The hill was mapped by the Spanish Servicio Geográfico del Ejército in 1991, and by Bulgaria in 1996 and 2005.

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Belozem is the name of a settlement in southern Bulgaria, ‘belozem’ being the Bulgarian for ‘white soil.’

Location

The hill is located at 62°38′08″S 60°20′52″W which is 880m northeast of Sinemorets Hill, 3.8 km west-southwest of Rezen Knoll and 2.12 km south by west of Aleko Point. (According to a 1995-96 Bulgarian topographic survey.)

Maps

  • Isla Livingston: Península Hurd. Mapa topográfico de escala 1:25000. Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército, 1991.
  • L.L. Ivanov. Livingston Island: Central-Eastern Region. Scale 1:25000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 1996.
  • 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.
  • References

    Belozem Hill Wikipedia