Breze Peak ( bg, връх Брезе, vrah Breze, ) is the mostly ice-covered peak rising to 1634 mReference Elevation Model of Antarctica.
Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019 in eastern Havre Mountains, northern Alexander Island in

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. It surmounts

Russian Gap Russian Gap () is a gap extending in a north–south direction between the Havre Mountains and Rouen Mountains, in the north part of Alexander Island, Antarctica. The north coast of Alexander Island was first sketched from a great distance in 1821 ...

to the northeast and

Foreman Glacier Foreman Glacier () is a glacier flowing south-southeast from the Havre Mountains in the northern portion of Alexander Island, Antarctica. It drains the southwest slopes of Dimitrova Peak and the west slopes of Breze Peak and flows into Pales ...

to the west. The peak was visited on 8 January 1988 by the geological survey team of

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and Borislav Kamenov (First Bulgarian Antarctic Expedition), and Philip Nell and

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(

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). The feature is named after the settlements of Breze in Southern and Western Bulgaria.

Location

The peak is located at , which is 11.2 km southeast of

Mount Pontida Mount Pontida ( bg, връх Понтида, vrah Pontida, ) is the ice-covered mountain rising to 1965 m Mount Newman Mount Newman () is a mountain rising to about 1,150 m in northeast Havre Mountains, north Alexander Island, Antarctica. Situated 13.23 km south of Satovcha Peak, 13.15 km north-northwest of Breze Peak, 8.26 km northeast of Mount ...

, 22.5 km west of Mount Sanderson in Rouen Mountains, and 17.37 km north-northwest of the central height of Landers Peaks in

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Maps

* British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 – W 69 70. Tolworth, UK, 1971
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

Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.

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. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)
Breze Peak.
SCAR

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External links

Breze Peak.
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