Mostich Hill

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.

Location of Rugged Island in the South Shetland Islands

Topographic map of Livingston Island and Smith Island

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. Spanish mapping in 1992 and Bulgarian in 2009.

Maps

• Península Byers, Isla Livingston. Mapa topográfico a escala 1:25000. Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército, 1992.
• 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

• Mostich Hill. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
• Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)

External links

• Mostich Hill. Copernix satellite image

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