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Karlovo Peak

Karlovo Peak (Vrah Karlovo \'vr&h 'kar-lo-vo) is a 300 m peak in Delchev Ridge, Tangra Mountains on eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It has partly ice-free north slopes, and precipitous south-eastern ones, and surmounts the east extremity of Sopot Ice Piedmont to the north.

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The peak was named after the Bulgarian town of Karlovo.

Location

The cliff is located at 62°37′04.2″S 59°49′24″W which is 610 m east-northeast of Mesta Peak, 280 m south-southwest of Malyovitsa Crag and 1.29 km southwest of Renier Point (Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009).

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.
  • References

    Karlovo Peak Wikipedia