Paisiy Peak

Location of Tangra Mountains on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.

Paisiy Peak from Miziya Peak.

Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Paisiy Peak (Vrah Paisiy \'vr&h pa-'i-siy\) rises to approximately 550 m in the Delchev Ridge, Tangra Mountains, eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica surmounting Sopot Ice Piedmont to the north and east.

The peak is named after St. Paisiy Hilendarski (St. Paisius of Chilendar, 1722–73), a famous figure of the Bulgarian national Renaissance, and author of the book ‘Slavonic-Bulgarian History: On the People, Bulgarian Czars and Saints, and All Bulgarian Deeds and Events’.

Location

The peak is located at 62°37′31.3″S 59°53′49.5″W / 62.625361°S 59.897083°W / -62.625361; -59.897083Coordinates: 62°37′31.3″S 59°53′49.5″W / 62.625361°S 59.897083°W / -62.625361; -59.897083 which is 600 m north by west of Elena Peak, 5.03 km west-southwest of Renier Point and 3.9 km east by south of Rila Point (Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009).

Maps

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

References

SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

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

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