- Mostich Hill
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Location of Rugged Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Mostich Hill (Bulgarian: хълм Мостич, ‘Halm Mostich’ \'h&lm 'mos-tich\) is a rocky hill rising to 130 m in the southwestern part of Rugged Island off the west coast of Byers Peninsula of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Situated 780 m northeast of Benson Point, 3.16 km south-southeast of Cape Sheffield, and 3.78 km west of Radev Point.
The hill is named after Mostich, Ichirgu-boil (chief boyar) of Czar Simeon the Great and Peter I of Bulgaria (10th Century AD).
Location
Mostich Hill is located at 62°38′24.7″S 61°16′31.4″W / 62.640194°S 61.275389°W. Spanish mapping in 1992 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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