Volov Peak

Location of Davis Coast.

Volov Peak (Bulgarian: Връх Волов, ‘Vrah Volov’ \'vr&h 'vo-lov\) is the rocky peak rising to 1148 m at the southwest extremity of Korten Ridge on Davis Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. It is surmounting Temple Glacier to the southwest.

The peak is named after Panayot Volov (1850-1876), a leader of the 1876 April Uprising for Bulgarian independence.

Location

Volov Peak is located at 63°59′06″S 59°55′53″W / 63.98500°S 59.93139°W / -63.98500; -59.93139Coordinates: 63°59′06″S 59°55′53″W / 63.98500°S 59.93139°W / -63.98500; -59.93139, which is 16.6 km southeast of Havilland Point, 1.84 km south-southwest of Chubra Peak and 5.5 km west of Mount Bris. German-British mapping in 1996.

Map

Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.

References

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

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