Kalofer Peak

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

Kalofer Peak from Bransfield Strait.

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

Kalofer Peak (Bulgarian: връх Калофер, romanized: vrah Kalofer, IPA: [ˈvrɤx kɐˈɫɔfɛr]) is a 300 m sharp rocky peak in the Levski Ridge, Tangra Mountains on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The peak is named after the town of Kalofer in Central Bulgaria.

Location

The peak is located at 62°41′23.4″S 60°01′03.7″W which is 960 m south of Radichkov Peak, 410 m northwest of M'Kean Point (formed by an offshoot of the peak), 2.19 km southeast of Serdica Peak and 2.15 km northeast of Christoff Cliff.

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

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

External links

• Kalofer Peak. Copernix satellite image

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