Klisura Peak

Location of Tangra Mountains on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.

Klisura Peak from Bransfield Strait.

Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Klisura Peak (Vrah Klisura \'vr&h kli-'su-ra\) is a peak rising to approx. 600 m in Friesland Ridge, Tangra Mountains, eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The peak overlooks Macy Glacier to the northeast, east and southeast and was named after the Bulgarian town of Klisura.

Location

The peak is located at 62°41′41″S 60°10′26″W / 62.69472°S 60.17389°W / -62.69472; -60.17389Coordinates: 62°41′41″S 60°10′26″W / 62.69472°S 60.17389°W / -62.69472; -60.17389 which is 3.83 km south-southwest of Lyaskovets Peak, 2.8 km south by east of Mount Friesland, 1.75 km east of Simeon Peak, 1.75 km north of Preslav Crag and 2.55 km west by north of the Peshev Peak (Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009).

Maps

L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.
L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009.

References

SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.

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