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Mount Devol ( bg, връх Девол, vrah Devol, ) is the ice-covered mountain rising to 1626 mReference Elevation Model of Antarctica.
Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019
in
Lassus Mountains The Lassus Mountains () are a large group of mountains, long and wide, rising to and extending south from Palestrina Glacier in the northwest part of Alexander Island, Antarctica. They overlook Lazarev Bay and a few minor islands within the bay ...
, northern
Alexander Island Alexander Island, which is also known as Alexander I Island, Alexander I Land, Alexander Land, Alexander I Archipelago, and Zemlja Alexandra I, is the largest island of Antarctica. It lies in the Bellingshausen Sea west of Palmer Land, Antarc ...
in
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
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 east and Narechen Glacier to the west. The feature is named after the town and region of Devol in medieval Southwestern Bulgaria.


Location

The mountain is located at , which is 10.24 km south by east of Mount Wilbye, 8.7 km southwest of Mount Kliment Ohridski in Sofia University Mountains, 8.77 km west of Rachenitsa Nunatak, 2.7 km north by west of
Moriseni Peak Moriseni Peak ( bg, връх Морисени, vrah Moriseni, ) is the mostly ice-covered peak rising to 1740 mFaulkner Nunatak Faulkner Nunatak () is a distinctive nunatak, about high, just west of Beagle Peak and 9.5 km west by south of Mount Devol in the Lassus Mountains, in the northwest part of Alexander Island, Antarctica. The feature appears in U.S. Navy ae ...
.


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.
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)
Mount Devol.
SCAR
Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica 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 th ...


External links


Mount Devol.
Copernix satellite image Devol Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{AlexanderIsland-geo-stub