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Kushla Peak ( bg, връх Кушла, vrah Kushla, ) is the peak rising to 2588 mReference Elevation Model of Antarctica.
Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019 in
Veregava Ridge Veregava Ridge ( bg, хребет Верегава, ‘Hrebet Veregava’ \'hre-bet ve-re-'ga-va\) is the ridge rising to 3210 m
, central
Sentinel Range The Sentinel Range is a major mountain range situated northward of Minnesota Glacier and forming the northern half of the Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica. The range trends NNW-SSE for about and is 24 to 48 km (15 to 30 mi) wide. Man ...
in
Ellsworth Mountains The Ellsworth Mountains are the highest mountain ranges in Antarctica, forming a long and wide chain of mountains in a north to south configuration on the western margin of the Ronne Ice Shelf in Marie Byrd Land. They are bisected by Minnesota ...
,
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 ...
. It surmounts
Berisad Glacier Berisad Glacier ( bg, ледник Берисад, lednik Berisad, ) is a glacier long and wide in Veregava Ridge, central Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. It flows north-northwestwards from Kushla Peak to join Dater Glaci ...
to the north-northwest and
Hansen Glacier Hansen Glacier () is a tributary glacier long, flowing northeast from Mount Tuck between Veregava Ridge and Doyran Heights to join Dater Glacier west of Dickey Peak, in the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica. It was fir ...
to the southeast. The peak is named after the settlement of
Kushla Kushla (Кушла) is a village in southern Bulgaria, Zlatograd municipality, Smolyan Province, located near the border with Greece. In the Ottoman times the town was called Ugurli in Turkish and Kotyli in Greek. In 1918 the village was part of the ...
in Southern
Bulgaria Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedon ...
.


Location

Kushla Peak is located at , which is 3.53 km northeast of
Mount Waldron Mount Waldron is a mountain (3,100 m) in Antarctica, the summit of Veregava Ridge in the Sentinel Range of Ellsworth Mountains. It is situated 3 nautical miles (6 km) north of Mount Tuck, and surmounts Dater Glacier to the west, Orizari G ...
, 4.15 km southeast of Sipey Bluff, 12.58 km southwest of
Dickey Peak Dickey Peak () is a rocky peak rising to 1504 m in the northwestern part of the Flowers Hills in the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica. It overlooks Dater Glacier to the west and Lardeya Ice Piedmont to the east. The featu ...
and 4.95 km northwest of
Mount Havener Mount Havener () is a mountain rising to directly at the head of Guerrero Glacier, in the Doyran Heights of the Sentinel Range, in the Ellsworth Mountains of Antarctica. It was first mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys a ...
. US mapping in 1961, updated in 1988.


See also

*
Mountains in Antarctica This is a list of all the Ultra prominent peaks (with topographic prominence greater than 1,500 metres) in Antarctica. Some islands in the South Atlantic have also been included and can be found at the end of the list. Antarctica South Atl ...


Maps

* Vinson Massif. Scale 1:250 000 topographic map. Reston, Virginia: US Geological Survey, 1988.


Notes


External links


Kushla Peak.
SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
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)


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Kushla Peak.
Copernix satellite image Bulgaria and the Antarctic Ellsworth Mountains Mountains of Ellsworth Land {{EllsworthLand-geo-stub