Helmet Peak, Livingston Island

Helmet Peak, Livingston Island

Helmet Peak (coord|62|39|S|60|01|W|) is a peak rising to 1254 m in Tangra Mountains on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, just southward of the mouth of Huron Glacier. Bounded by Devnya Valley to the west, Iskar Glacier to the northeast, and Magura Glacier to the southeast. Named by the UK-APC in 1958 after the American ship "Huron" (Capt. John Davis) of New Haven (CT), which visited the South Shetland Islands in 1820-21 and 1821-22.

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* L.L. Ivanov et al, (from English Strait to Morton Strait, with illustrations and ice-cover distribution), 1:100000 scale topographic map, Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, Sofia, 2005


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