Bankya Peak ( bg, връх Банкя, vrah Bankya, ) is the peak rising to 877 mReference Elevation Model of Antarctica.
Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019 in Korten Ridge at the base of Svilengrad Peninsula, east of Lanchester Bay and west of Sabine Glacier on

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. The peak is named after the town of

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in western

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Location

Bankya Peak is located at , which is 5.28 km south-southeast of Wennersgaard Point, 6 km northeast of Milkov Point, 4.36 km north of Chanute Peak and 6.55 km west-northwest of Velichkov Knoll. German-British mapping in 1996.

Map

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

Notes

References

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

External links

Bankya Peak.
Copernix satellite image Mountains of Graham Land Bulgaria and the Antarctic Davis Coast {{DavisCoast-geo-stub