Biolchev Peak ( bg, Биолчев връх, Biolchev vrah, ) is the rocky peak rising to 1066 mReference Elevation Model of Antarctica.
Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019 in eastern

Bigla Ridge Bigla Ridge ( bg, text=хребет Бигла, italic=yes, ‘Hrebet Bigla’ \'hre-bet 'bi-gla\) is the rocky, partly ice-free ridge extending 19 km in northwest-southeast direction, 8.8 km wide and rising to 1644 m ( Stancheva Pe ...

Heros Peninsula Heros Peninsula ( bg, полуостров Херос, poluostrov Heros, ) is the partly ice-free 8.9 km wide peninsula projecting from Foyn Coast, Antarctic Peninsula 13 km southeastwards into Cabinet Inlet. It ends in Spur Point to th ...

Foyn Coast The Foyn Coast () is that portion of the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Alexander and Cape Northrop. It was discovered in 1893 by a Norwegian expedition under Captain Carl Anton Larsen, who named it for Svend Foyn, a Norwegian ...

on the

Antarctic Peninsula The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martín in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctic ...

. It surmounts

Beaglehole Glacier Beaglehole Glacier () is a glacier between Spur Point and Friederichsen Glacier on the east coast of Graham Land. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after John Cawte Beaglehole, New Zealand historian of the Antarctic and bio ...

to the west. The feature is named after

Boyan Biolchev Boyan may refer to: People * Bojan, a common Slavic given name spelled as Boyan in Bulgarian * Boyan (bard) (10th–11th century), a bard active at the court of Yaroslav the Wise * Boyan (given name), a common Bulgarian given name * Boyan (Hasi ...

, participant in the Bulgarian Antarctic campaigns in 2000/01 and subsequent seasons, for his support for the Bulgarian Antarctic programme.

Location

Biolchev Peak is located at , which is 4.2 km south of Mount Popov, 4.8 km north-northwest of Takev Point and 6.9 km east of

Chuypetlovo Knoll Chuypetlovo Knoll ( bg, Чуйпетловска могила, ‘Chuypetlovska Mogila’ \chuy-pe-'tlov-ska mo-'gi-labi-gla\) is the conspicuous rocky ridge in Beaglehole Glacier extending 3.7 km in southeast-northwest direction, 1.9 km ...

. British mapping in 1974.

Maps

* British Antarctic Territory: Graham Land. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. BAS 250 Series, Sheet SQ 19–20. London, 1974.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.

Notes

References

Biolchev Peak.

SCAR A scar (or scar tissue) is an area of fibrous tissue that replaces normal skin after an injury. Scars result from the biological process of wound repair in the skin, as well as in other organs, and tissues of the body. Thus, scarring is a na ...

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 ...

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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)

External links

Biolchev Peak.
Copernix satellite image Mountains of Graham Land Foyn Coast Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{FoynCoast-geo-stub