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Barziya Peak ( bg, връх Бързия, vrah Barziya, ) is the mostly ice-covered peak rising to 1940 mReference Elevation Model of Antarctica.
Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2022
in the south part of
Pernik Peninsula Pernik Peninsula ( bg, полуостров Перник, poluostrov Pernik, ) is the ice-covered peninsula projecting 40 km in northwest direction from Loubet Coast on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula. It is bounded by Darbel Bay to th ...
,
Loubet Coast Loubet Coast is the portion of the west coast of Graham Land in Antarctic Peninsula, extending 158 km between Cape Bellue to the northeast and Bourgeois Fjord to the southwest. South of Loubet Coast is Fallières Coast, north is Graham Coast. ...
in
Graham Land Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and ...
,
Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest contine ...
. The feature has steep and partly ice-free southwest and northwest slopes, surmounting
Field Glacier Field Glacier () is a glacier on Pernik Peninsula, Loubet Coast in Graham Land, situated south of Salmon Cove, and flowing west into Lallemand Fjord just south of Kanchov Peak. It was mapped from air photos taken by the Falkland Islands and Depend ...
to the north and west, and its tributary Narezne Glacier to the southwest. The peak is named after the settlement of Barziya in Northwestern Bulgaria.


Location

Barziya Peak is located at , which is 15 km east-southeast of
Álvarez Point Álvarez or Álvares may refer to: People *Álvarez (surname), Spanish surname Places *Alvares (river), a river in northern Spain *Alvares (ski resort), in Iran * Alvares, Iran * Alvares, Portugal * Álvarez, Santa Fe, a town in the province of S ...
, 15 km south of
Mount Deeley Mount Deeley () is a mountain high, on Pernik Peninsula, Loubet Coast in Graham Land, standing northeast of Salmon Cove. It was mapped from air photos taken by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition of 1956–57, and it ...
and 8.2 km northeast of
Zhelev Peak Zhelev Peak ( bg, Желев връх, Zhelev vrah, ) is the rocky peak rising to 1650 m on the west coast of Pernik Peninsula, Loubet Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. The feature has steep and partly ice-free west slopes, and surmounts Lallemand ...
. British mapping in 1978.


Maps


Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
British Antarctic Territory.
Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 67 66. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1978.


Notes


References


Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.
Antarctic Place-names Commission The Antarctic Place-names Commission was established by the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute in 1994, and since 2001 has been a body affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria. The Commission approves Bulgarian place names in ...
. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)
Barziya Peak.
SCAR
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 t ...
.


External links


Barziya Peak.
Copernix satellite image Mountains of Graham Land Bulgaria and the Antarctic Loubet Coast {{LoubetCoast-geo-stub