Lesnovo Hill ( bg, хълм Лесново, ‘Halm Lesnovo’ \'h&lm le-'sno-vo) is the mostly ice-covered hill rising to 1286 mReference Elevation Model of Antarctica.
Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019 at the west extremity of Care Heights in Rouen Mountains, northern Alexander Island in

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. It surmounts

Nichols Snowfield Nichols Snowfield () is a snowfield, 22 nautical miles (41 km) long and 8 nautical miles (15 km) wide, bounded by the Rouen Mountains and Elgar Uplands to the east and Lassus Mountains to the west, in the north part of Alexander Island, ...

to the west. The hill was visited on 28 January 1988 by the geological survey team of

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

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). The feature is named after the settlement of Lesnovo in Western Bulgaria.

Location

The hill is located at , which is 6.9 km southwest of

Mount Sanderson Mount Sanderson () is a mountain rising to about 2,300 m in south Rouen Mountains, situated in the northern portion of Alexander Island, Antarctica. It is situated 22.5 km east of Breze Peak in Havre Mountains. The mountain was first surv ...

, 19.3 km west-southwest of

Mount Cupola Mount Cupola () is a dome-shaped mountain, high, marking the southeastern limit of the Rouen Mountains in the northern part of Alexander Island. It was first photographed from the air by the British Graham Land Expedition in 1937, and surveyed ...

, 6.23 km north of

Serpent Nunatak Serpent Nunatak () is a nunatak which is seen in the shape of a reverse letter S, rising to about just west of Tufts Pass lying within the Nichols Snowfield, in the northern portion of Alexander Island, Antarctica. It is situated northeast of L ...

, and 10.95 km east of the central height of Landers Peaks in

Sofia University Mountains Sofia University Mountains (планина Софийски Университет \pla-ni-'na so-'fiy-ski u-ni-ver-si-'tet\) are a cluster of four small mountains, long in the southwest-northeast direction and wide, rising to ca. (Mount Klim ...

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)
Lesnovo Hill.
SCAR

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External links

Lesnovo Hill.
Copernix satellite image Landforms of Alexander Island Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{AlexanderIsland-geo-stub