- Drong Hill
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Location of Byers Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Drong Hill (Bulgarian: хълм Дронг, ‘Halm Drong’ \'h&lm 'drong\) is the double rocky hill in the north extremity of Dospey Heights on Byers Peninsula of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Featuring a height rising to 193 m situated 750 m east-southeast of Essex Point and 1.8 km north of Start Hill, and a lower height of elevation 160 m situated 250 m west-northwest of the former, and 500 m east-southeast of Essex Point.
The hill is named after the Bulgar ruler Drong (6th Century AD).
Location
Drong Hill is located at 62°34′37″S 61°10′18″W / 62.57694°S 61.17167°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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