Vineh Peak (Bulgarian: връх Винех, romanized: vrah Vineh, IPA: [ˈvrɤɣ viˈnɛx]) is a rocky peak rising to 186 m in the east extremity of Rugged Island off the west coast of Byers Peninsula of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.
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The peak is named after Khan Vineh of Bulgaria, 756-760 AD.
Location
editVineh Peak is located at 62°37′53.8″S 61°12′00″W / 62.631611°S 61.20000°W which is 680 m east of the highest point of Bakshev Ridge, 930 m south-southeast of Herring Point, 970 m north of Radev Point, and 580 m west of Vund Point (Spanish mapping in 1992 and Bulgarian in 2009).
Maps
edit- 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
- L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Smith Island. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017. ISBN 978-619-90008-3-0
References
edit- Vineh Peak. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
- Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
External links
edit- Vineh Peak. Copernix satellite image
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.