Mount Ignatiev ( bg, Игнатиев връх, Ignatiev vrah, ) is a peak rising to 1220 m in the Srednogorie Heights on Trinity Peninsula,

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 is situated 3.3 km south-southeast of

Corner Peak Corner Peak () is a pyramidal peak, high, with considerable rock exposed on its northern face. Located in the northeastern Srednogorie Heights, east-southeast of Cape Roquemaurel, it marks a corner in the broad glacial valley of Malorad Glacier ...

, 8.96 km east-southeast of

Hanson Hill Hanson Hill () is a snow-covered hill, high, with two lower summits, one to the north and one to the south, standing southeast of Cape Roquemaurel and west-northwest of Zanoge Hill on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. This hill was r ...

, 12.1 km north of

Sirius Knoll Sirius Knoll () is a conspicuous ice-covered knoll, 1,010 m, situated 2.28 km north-northeast of Mount Schuyler and marking the northeast end of Detroit Plateau in the central part of Trinity Peninsula in Antarctica. Surmounting Russell West Glac ...

and 7.17 km southwest of

Crown Peak Crown Peak () is an ice-covered peak, high, topped by a conspicuous crown-shaped ice formation. It forms the highest summit and the south end of the Marescot Ridge on the northwest side of the Trinity Peninsula. The peak lies east of Cape Roq ...

and surmounts

Trajan Gate Trajan Gate ( bg, Траянови врата, ‘Trayanovi Vrata’ \tra-'ya-no-vi vra-'ta\) is the flat saddle of elevation ca. 850 m extending 4.3 km on Trinity Peninsula Trinity Peninsula is the northernmost part of the Antarctic Pe ...

to the east, Malorad Glacier to the north and

Russell West Glacier Russell West Glacier () is a glacier, 11 nautical miles (20 km) long and 4 nautical miles (7 km) wide, which lies immediately north of Detroit Plateau and flows from Mount Canicula, Verdikal Gap and Trajan Gate westward into Bone Bay o ...

to the south. The peak is named after the settlement of

Graf Ignatievo Graf Ignatievo (, ) is a village in Maritsa Municipality, southern Bulgaria. As of 2006 it has 2015 inhabitants. The village is named after a Russian diplomat- Count Nikolai Pavlovich Ignatiev, who played an important role as an ambassador of Russi ...

in southern Bulgaria, in connection with the Russian diplomat Count

Nikolay Ignatyev Count Nikolay Pavlovich Ignatyev (historical spelling: ''Nicolai Ignatieff''; russian: Граф Никола́й Па́влович Игна́тьев; – ), a Russian statesman and diplomat, became best known for his aggressive expansioni ...

(1832-1908).

Location

Mount Ignatiev is located at . German-British mapping in 1996.

Maps

Trinity Peninsula.
Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.

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 Ignatiev.
SCAR

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 ...

External links

Mount Ignatiev.
Copernix satellite image Mountains of Trinity Peninsula Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{TrinityPeninsula-geo-stub