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Rayna Knyaginya Peak
Rayna Knyaginya Peak ( bg, връх Райна Княгиня, vrah Rayna Knyaginya, ) is a peak of elevation 680 m in western Bowles Ridge, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Surmounting Perunika Glacier to the south and northwest, and Kaliakra Glacier to the northeast. The peak is named after Rayna Knyaginya (pseudonym of Rayna Futekova, 1856–1917), heroine of the Bulgarian liberation movement. Location The peak is located at , which is 740 m northwest of the summit Mount Bowles, 350 m east by north of Bowles West Peak, and 800 m southeast of Hemus Peak from which it is separated by Dimov Gate (Bulgarian topographic survey Tangra 2004/05, and 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. IvanovAntarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bowles West Peak
Bowles West Peak ( bg, връх западен Боулс, vrah zapaden Bouls, ) is a peak rising to 678 m at the western extremity of Bowles Ridge in eastern Livingston Island in Antarctica. The peak has precipitous and partly ice free western slopes and overlooks Perunika Glacier to the southwest. The feature takes its name from Mount Bowles, the summit of the eponymous ridge. Location The peak is located at which is 1 km west by north of Mount Bowles (822 m), 790 m south by east of Hemus Peak, 6.24 km east of Aleko Rock and 3.2 km east by northeast of Rezen Knoll. The peak was roughly mapped by the British in 1968 and the Spanish in 1991. The peak was mapped by Bulgaria from a 1995-96 topographic survey. 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. IvanovAntarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
The Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (CGA) of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) is the authoritative international gazetteer containing all Antarctic toponyms published in national gazetteers, plus basic information about those names and the relevant geographical features. The Gazetteer includes also parts of the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) gazetteer for under-sea features situated south of 60° south latitude. , the overall content of the CGA amounts to 37,893 geographic names for 19,803 features including some 500 features with two or more entirely different names, contributed by the following sources: {, class="wikitable sortable" ! Country ! Names , - , United States , 13,192 , - , United Kingdom , 5,040 , - , Russia , 4,808 , - , New Zealand , 2,597 , - , Australia , 2,551 , - , Argentina , 2,545 , - , Chile , 1,866 , - , Norway , 1,706 , - , Bulgaria , 1,450 , - , G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tangra 2004/05
The Tangra 2004/05 Expedition was commissioned by the Antarctic Place-names Commission at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria, managed by the Manfred Wörner Foundation, and supported by the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute, the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgarian Posts, Uruguayan Antarctic Institute, Peregrine Shipping (Australia), and Petrol Ltd, TNT, Mtel, Bulstrad, Polytours, B. Bekyarov and B. Chernev (Bulgaria). Expedition team Dr. Lyubomir Ivanov (team leader), senior research associate, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; chairman, Antarctic Place-names Commission; author of the 1995 Bulgarian Antarctic ''Toponymic Guidelines'' introducing in particular the present official system for the Romanization of Bulgarian; participant in four Bulgarian Antarctic campaigns, and author of the first Bulgarian Antarctic topographic maps. Doychin Vas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dimov Gate
Dimov Gate (Dimova Porta \'di-mo-va 'por-ta\) is a 300 m wide ice-covered pass in Antarctica, located in eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and bounded by Rayna Knyaginya Peak in Bowles Ridge to the southeast and by Hemus Peak to the northwest. The pass separates the glacial catchments of Kaliakra Glacier, and the tributary glacier draining the area between Hemus Peak and Bowles West Peak and flowing west-southwestwards into Perunika Glacier. It affords overland access from Perunika Glacier to the northern slopes of Bowles Ridge and to upper Kaliakra Glacier. The pass is named after Dimo Dimov, geologist at St. Kliment Ohridski in 1994/95 and subsequent seasons, who was the first postmaster of the post office Antarctica 1090 operated at the base since the 1994/95 season in compliance with standard Bulgarian postal regulations and procedures. Location The midpoint is located at which is 3.86 km northeast by south of Rezen Knoll, 1.34 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hemus Peak
Hemus Peak ( bg, връх Хемус, vrah Hemus, ) is an ice-covered peak rising to off the northwest extremity of Bowles Ridge in eastern Livingston Island. The feature is breast-shaped, long in east-west direction and wide, and overlooks Kaliakra Glacier to the northeast and Perunika Glacier to the southwest. Hemus is an ancient name of Stara Planina (Balkan Mountains), the central mountain range separating northern from southern Bulgaria. Location The peak is located at , which is northwest of Mount Bowles (, summit of Bowles Ridge), north-northwest of Rayna Knyaginya Peak, north-northeast of Chirpan Peak, northeast of Rezen Knoll, m east by north of Aleko Point, and south by east of the summit of Gleaner Heights () (Rough British mapping in 1968, Bulgarian mapping from a 1995-96 ground survey). Maps South Shetland Islands.Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Sheet W 62 60. Tolworth, UK, 1968. * Islas Livingston y Decepción. Mapa topográfico a escala 1:10000 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Bowles
Mount Bowles is an ice-covered mountain high, the summit of Bowles Ridge in the central part of eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is situated south of Vidin Heights and north of Mount Friesland, Tangra Mountains to which it is linked by Wörner Gap. The origin of the name is uncertain; it appears (poorly positioned and probably intended for some other peak on the island) on the 1829 chart of the British expedition (1828–31) under Captain Henry Foster in ''HMS'' . Mount Bowles was first climbed by Àlex Simón, Vicente Castro, David Hita and a friend from Juan Carlos I Station on January 5, 2003.American Alpine Journal, 2003. p.333. Location According to a 2003 Australian GPS survey the peak is located at , which is 9.77 km northwest of Great Needle Peak, 6.08 km north by west of Mount Friesland, 8.77 km east-northeast of St. Kliment Ohridski base and 9.25 km south by west of Miziya Peak. Maps * S. Soccol, D. Gildea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rayna Knyaginya
Rayna Popgeorgieva Futekova ( bg, Райна Попгеоргиева Футекова), better known as Rayna (aka Raika) Knyaginya (Райна Княгиня), aka "Queen of the Bulgarians" ( Panagyurishte, Ottoman Empire, 6 January 1856 OS – Sofia, Kingdom of Bulgaria, 29 July 1917) was a Bulgarian teacher and revolutionary born in Panagyurishte who is famous for having sewn the flag of the April Uprising of 1876. The flag and the uprising When she was 20 and working as a head teacher in the Panagyurishte girls' school, she was asked to sew the flag for the April Uprising by Georgi Benkovski, which she accepted. The lion on the flag was drawn by Stoyan "Banenetsa" Karaleev after the pattern of the lion printed on the cover of the Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee's organization chart and the letters were drawn by Ivancho Zografa. Besides the '' Свобода или смърт'' (''Svoboda ili smart'', ''Freedom or death'') inscription, the letters '' П'' a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
