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Obzor Hill ( bg, хълм Обзор, ‘Halm Obzor’ \'h&lm ob-'zor\) is the hill rising to 479 mReference Elevation Model of Antarctica.
Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019
at the northeast tip of
Trinity Peninsula Trinity Peninsula is the northernmost part of the Antarctic Peninsula. It extends northeastward for about 130 km (80 mi) to Cape Dubouzet from an imaginary line connecting Cape Kater on the north-west coast and Cape Longing on the sou ...
,
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 surmounts Mott Snowfield to the west. The feature is named after the town of
Obzor Obzor ( bg, Обзор ) is a small town and seaside resort on the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria. It is part of Nesebar Municipality, Burgas Province. On February 28th, 2021, the citizens of Obzor and six nearby villages voted in a referendum to sepa ...
in eastern
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

Obzor Hill is located at , which is 2.46 km west-southwest of
Cape Dubouzet Cape Dubouzet () is a cape that marks the northeastern extremity of Trinity Peninsula and the Antarctic Peninsula. It is situated north by west of Sheppard Point, northeast of Vishegrad Knoll, east-southeast of Prime Head, east-southeast of ...
, 1.18 km north of
Mount Bransfield Mount Bransfield () is a prominent conical-topped, ice-covered mountain, high, rising east-southeast of Siffrey Point, southwest of Cape Dubouzet and north of Koerner Rock, at the northeast tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. The peak was disco ...
and 1.87 km northwest of
Vishegrad Knoll Vishegrad Knoll ( bg, Вишеградска могила, ‘Vishegradska Mogila’ \'vi-she-grad-ska mo-'gi-la\) is the hill rising to 532 mTrinity 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). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.


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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)
Obzor Hill.
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


Obzor Hill.
Copernix satellite image Hills of Trinity Peninsula Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{TrinityPeninsula-geo-stub