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Vihren Peak

Vihren Peak is a sharp peak rising to about 1150 m in Levski Ridge of the Tangra Mountains, eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica overlooking Devnya Valley and Huron Glacier to the north-northwest, and Magura Glacier to the southeast.

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The feature is named after the homonymous summit of the Pirin Mountains in Bulgaria.

Location

The peak is located at 62°39′36″S 60°01′40″W, which is next northeast of Vitosha Saddle, 1.73 km northeast of Great Needle Peak (Falsa Aguja Peak), 490 m south-southwest of Helmet Peak, and 2.2 km north of Radichkov 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

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