- Cherven Peak
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Location of Rugged Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Cherven Peak (Bulgarian: връх Червен, ‘Vrah Cherven’ \'vr&h 'cher-ven\) 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, 700 m southeast of Ivan Vladislav Point, 3.9 km east-southeast of Cape Sheffield, and 830 m north of San Stefano Peak.
The peak is named after the medieval town of Cherven in northeastern Bulgaria.
Location
Cherven Peak is located at 62°37′26.6″S 61°13′30.4″W / 62.624056°S 61.225111°W. Spanish mapping in 1993 and Bulgarian in 2009.
Map
- 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
References
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.
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