Pirne Peak ( bg, връх Пирне, vrah Pirne, ) is the rocky peak rising to 802 mReference Elevation Model of Antarctica.
Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019 on the coast of

Vaughan Inlet Vaughan Inlet () is an inlet approximately long and wide between the coastal point formed by Whiteside Hill to the southwest and Shiver Point to the northeast, on Oscar II Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. Its head is fed by Evans Glacier, Gr ...

, at the northeast extremity of Rugate Ridge on

Oscar II Coast Oscar II Coast is that portion of the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Fairweather to the north, and Cape Alexander to the south. Discovered in 1893 by Captain C.A. Larsen, who named it for King Oscar II of Norway and Sweden. ...

Graham Land Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and ...

. It surmounts

Green Glacier Green Glacier () is a glacier on the east side of Graham Land, Antarctica, long and wide, flowing from the plateau northeast between Dugerjav Peak and Rugate Ridge, and then east into Vaughan Inlet next north of Pirne Peak and south of the t ...

to the northwest and Musina Glacier to the southwest. The feature is named after the settlement of Pirne in Southeastern

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Location

Pirne Peak is located at , which is 13.7 km northeast of Mount Bistre, 13.18 km south of Sekirna Spur, 13.4 km west of Mural Nunatak, and 18 km northwest of

Whiteside Hill Whiteside Hill () is an ice-covered hill rising to 330 m on Blagoevgrad Peninsula on the east coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. An offshoot of the hill ending 3 km to the northeast forms the southwest side of the entrance to Vaughan In ...

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mapping in 1978.

Maps

* British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 60. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1978.
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

Pirne Peak.

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 na ...

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 ...

.
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.

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. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)

External links

Pirne Peak.
Copernix satellite image Mountains of Graham Land Oscar II Coast Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{OscarIICoast-geo-stub