Mount Reina Sofía (Spanish: Monte Reina Sofía) is the mostly ice-free peak rising to 275 m on Hurd Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and surmounting Johnsons Glacier to the east and northeast, and the Spanish Antarctic base Juan Carlos Primero to the north-northwest.
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Hurd-Peninsula-location-map.png/220px-Hurd-Peninsula-location-map.png)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Johnsons-Glacier.jpg/220px-Johnsons-Glacier.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Livingston-Island-Map-2010-15.png/220px-Livingston-Island-Map-2010-15.png)
The feature is named after Queen Sofía of Spain.
Location
editThe peak is located at 62°40′11″S 60°22′45″W / 62.66972°S 60.37917°W which is 1.3 km south by west of Ballester Point, 2.24 km southwest of Charrúa Ridge, 2.85 km west of Napier Peak, 2.8 km northwest of Moores Peak and 800 m south-southeast of the Spanish base (detailed Spanish mapping in 1991, and Bulgarian mapping in 1996, 2005 and 2009).
Maps
edit- Isla Livingston: Península Hurd. Mapa topográfico de escala 1:25000. Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército, 1991. (Map reproduced on p. 16 of the linked work)
- L.L. Ivanov. Livingston Island: Central-Eastern Region. Scale 1:25000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 1996.
- 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. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4
- Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
- L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Smith Island. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017. ISBN 978-619-90008-3-0
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