Tintyava Peak

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Location of Trinity Peninsula.

Tintyava Peak (Bulgarian: връх Тинтява, romanizedvrah 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

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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[]

  1. ^ Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica. Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019

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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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