Tintyava Peak

Tintyava Peak (Bulgarian: връх Тинтява, romanized: vrah Tintyava, IPA: [ˈvrɤx tinˈtʲavɐ]) is the ice-covered peak rising to 1026 m^[1] in the north foothills of Louis-Philippe Plateau on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. It is surmounting the upper course of Sestrimo Glacier to the east-southeast.

The peak is named after the settlement of Tintyava in Southern Bulgaria.

Location[]

Tintyava Peak is located at

63°31′02″S 58°14′10″W / 63.51722°S 58.23611°W / -63.51722; -58.23611Coordinates: 63°31′02″S 58°14′10″W / 63.51722°S 58.23611°W / -63.51722; -58.23611, which is 2.28 km west-southwest of Mount D’Urville, 9.57 km north-northwest of Kukuryak Bluff and 13.16 km east-northeast of Lardigo Peak. German-British mapping in 1996.

Maps[]

• Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.
• Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly updated.

Notes[]

References[]

• Tintyava Peak. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
• Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)

External links[]

• Tintyava Peak. Copernix satellite image

This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.