Zhelyava Hill

Location of Varna Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.

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

Zhelyava Hill (Bulgarian: хълм Желява, ‘Halm Zhelyava’ \'h&lm zhe-'lya-va\) is the ice-covered hill of elevation 237 m in the north part of Vidin Heights on Varna Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is overlooking Williams Point to the north, Rose Valley Glacier to the southeast and Saedinenie Snowfield to the southwest.

The feature is named after the settlement of Zhelyava in western Bulgaria.

Location

Zhelyava Hill is located at 62°29′33″S 60°08′09″W / 62.49250°S 60.13583°WCoordinates: 62°29′33″S 60°08′09″W / 62.49250°S 60.13583°W, which is at the base of Phelps Promontory, 4 km north of Passy Peak and 2.2 km south of Sayer Nunatak. Bulgarian topographic survey Tangra 2004/05. British mapping in 1968, Spanish in 1991 and Bulgarian in 2009.

Maps

• Islas Livingston y Decepción. Mapa topográfico a escala 1:100000. Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército, 1991.
• 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.

References

• Zhelyava Hill. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

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