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Plana Peak

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Parent range
  
Tangra Mountains

Elevation
  
740 m

Mountain range
  
Tangra Mountains

Easiest route
  
snow/glacier

First ascent
  
2004

Plana Peak

Location
  
Livingston Island, Antarctica

People also search for
  
Helmet Peak, Levski Peak, Great Needle Peak, Deception Island

Plana Peak (Vrah Plana \'vr&h 'pla-na) is a mostly ice-covered peak on the Levski Ridge, Tangra Mountains, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Surmounting Huron Glacier to the north and its tributaries to the east and west. First ascent by D. Boyanov, N. Petkov and A. Shopov on 8 January 2015. The peak is named after Plana Mountain in Western Bulgaria.

Contents

Map of Plana Peak, Antarctica

Location

The peak is located 2.21 km north-northwest of Great Needle Peak (Falsa Aguja Peak), 2.66 km northeast of Levski Peak and 2.45 km west-northwest of Helmet Peak (Bulgarian topographic survey Tangra 2004/05, and 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. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4
  • References

    Plana Peak Wikipedia