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Mount Llana ( bg, връх Ляна, vrah Lyana, ) is the ice-covered peak rising to 1300 m at the north extremity of
Urda Ridge Urda Ridge ( bg, Урдин хребет, ‘Urdin Hrebet’ \'ur-din 'hre-bet\) is the mostly ice-covered ridge occupying the interior of southern Clarence Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It extends 8 km in north-northeast to ...
on Clarence Island in the
South Shetland Islands The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands with a total area of . They lie about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, and between southwest of the nearest point of the South Orkney Islands. By the Antarctic Treaty of 1 ...
,
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. It is connected to Jerez Peak by Soyka Saddle, and surmounts
Bersame Glacier Bersame Glacier ( bg, ледник Берсаме, lednik Bersame, ) is the 2.4 km long and 1.5 km wide glacier on the west side of Urda Ridge on Clarence Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica situated northeast of Giridava ...
to the west and
Highton Glacier Highton Glacier () is a glacier on the east coast of Clarence Island in the South Shetland Islands, south of Sugarloaf Island, flowing northeast to the sea. Called "Stamina Glacier" from the stamina needed to cross it by the Joint Services Expe ...
to the east. The peak is named after the
Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries **Spanish cuisine Other places * Spanish, Ontario, Can ...
mariner José de la Llana who probably discovered
Shag Rocks, South Georgia The Shag Rocks ( es, Islas Aurora) are six small islets, as opposed to islands, in the westernmost extreme of South Georgia, west of the main island of South Georgia and off the Falkland Islands. The Shag Rocks are located at . further sout ...
in 1762.


Location

Mount Llana is located at , which is 3.68 km north of Mount Irving and 2 km south-southwest of Jerez Peak. British mapping in 1972 and 2009.


Maps


British Antarctic Territory.
Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 61 54. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1972.
South Shetland Islands: Elephant, Clarence and Gibbs Islands.
Scale 1:220000 topographic map. UK Antarctic Place-names Committee, 2009.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.


References


Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.
Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)
Mount Llana.
SCAR A scar (or scar tissue) is an area of fibrous tissue that replaces normal skin after an injury. Scars result from the biological process of wound repair in the skin, as well as in other organs, and tissues of the body. Thus, scarring is a n ...
Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica


External links


Mount Llana.
Copernix satellite image Mountains of the South Shetland Islands Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{ClarenceIsland-geo-stub