Cherven Peak

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Location of Rugged Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Cherven Peak (Bulgarian: връх Червен, romanizedvrah Cherven, IPA: [ˈvrɤx ˈt͡ʃɛrvɛn]) is a rocky peak rising to 224 m on the north coast of Rugged Island off the west coast of Byers Peninsula of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Situated 1.04 km west of Herring Point, 830 m north of San Stefano Peak, 3.9 km east-southeast of Cape Sheffield, and 700 m southeast of Ivan Vladislav Point formed by an offshoot of the peak.

The peak is named after the medieval town of Cherven in northeastern Bulgaria.

Location[]

Cherven Peak is located at

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62°37′26.6″S 61°13′30.4″W / 62.624056°S 61.225111°W / -62.624056; -61.225111Coordinates: 62°37′26.6″S 61°13′30.4″W / 62.624056°S 61.225111°W / -62.624056; -61.225111. Spanish mapping in 1993 and Bulgarian in 2009.

Maps[]

  • Península Byers, Isla Livingston. Mapa topográfico a escala 1:25000. Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército, 1992.
  • 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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This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.


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