Petvar Heights

Location of Sentinel Range in Western Antarctica.

Sentinel Range map.

Petvar Heights (Bulgarian: Петварски възвишения, ‘Petvarski Vazvisheniya’ \'pet-var-ski v&-zvi-'she-ni-ya\) are the heights rising to 2400 m at Mount Mullen and including also Marze Peak, Mount Landolt, Miller Peak, Fruzhin Peak, Bagra Peak, Long Peak, Ruset Peak and Malkoch Peak in southeast Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica. The heights occupy an oval shaped area with a diameter of 21 km, separated from the rest of Sentinel Range by Wessbecher Glacier to the southwest, Kasilag Pass to the west, and Kornicker Glacier to the northwest and north. Their interior is drained by Hudman, Carey, Razboyna, Gabare and Divdyadovo Glaciers.

The heights are named after the settlement of Petvar in Southern Bulgaria.

Location

Petvar Heights are centred at 78°46′30″S 84°20′20″W / 78.77500°S 84.33889°WCoordinates: 78°46′30″S 84°20′20″W / 78.77500°S 84.33889°W. US mapping in 1961, updated in 1988.

Maps

• Vinson Massif. Scale 1:250 000 topographic map. Reston, Virginia: US Geological Survey, 1988.

References

• Petvar Heights. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
• Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)

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