Nevlya Peak

Coordinates: 62°32′18″S 59°43′47″W / 62.53833°S 59.72972°W / -62.53833; -59.72972
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Location of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Nevlya Peak (with its partly ice-free south slope surmounting Wulfila Glacier in the central background) from near Ravda Peak, Livingston Island.
Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Nevlya Peak (Bulgarian: връх Невля, romanized: vrah Nevlya, IPA: [ˈvrɤx ˈnɛvʎɐ]) is an ice-covered peak rising to 390 m in Breznik Heights on Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Situated 620 m west of Terter Peak, 1.64 km north-northwest of the summit of Ephraim Bluff, 1.15 km east-southeast of the summit of Oborishte Ridge and 1.35 km east of Salash Nunatak.[1] Overlooking Wulfila Glacier to the west and south.

The peak is named after the settlement of Dolna (Lower) Nevlya in western Bulgaria.[1]

Location[edit]

Nevlya Peak is located at 62°32′18″S 59°43′47″W / 62.53833°S 59.72972°W / -62.53833; -59.72972. Bulgarian topographic survey Tangra 2004/05 and mapping in 2009.

Map[edit]

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

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ a b Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica

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


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