Sharp Peak is a sharp rocky peak rising to 500 m in the northeast of

Vidin Heights Vidin Heights ( bg, Видински възвишения, Vidinski vazvisheniya, ) are predominantly ice-covered heights rising to 604 m on Varna Peninsula, eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The feature i ...

Varna Peninsula Varna Peninsula ( bg, полуостров Варна, poluostrov Varna, ) is a roughly rectangular predominantly ice-covered peninsula forming the northeast extremity of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is bound ...

Livingston Island Livingston Island (Russian name ''Smolensk'', ) is an Antarctic island in the Southern Ocean, part of the South Shetlands Archipelago, a group of Antarctic islands north of the Antarctic Peninsula. It was the first land discovered south of 60 ...

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 ...

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 cont ...

. The peak is surmounting Rose Valley Glacier to the northwest and

Debelt Glacier The Debelt Glacier ( bg, ледник Дебелт, lednik Debelt, ) on Varna Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is situated southeast of Rose Valley Glacier and northeast of Panega Glacier. It drains the ...

to the south. The feature was named descriptively in a 1935 British chart.

Location

The peak is located at which is 2.38 km south by west of

Karavelova Point Karavelova Point or Nos Karavelova ( is on the northeast coast of Varna Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica forming the south side of the entrance to Lister Cove. It is named after Ekaterina Karavelova (1860–1 ...

, 3.28 km west of

Inott Point Inott Point () is a point north-northeast of Edinburgh Hill forming the eastern extremity of Varna Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Situated 4.3 km southwest of Bagryana Point on Greenwich Island across ...

, 3.28 km northwest of

Edinburgh Hill Edinburgh Hill is a narrow point projecting 650 m from the east coast of Varna Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica into McFarlane Strait and ending up in a conspicuous rocky hill of elevation 180 m. The point ...

, 1.9 km north by east of

Helis Nunatak Helis Nunatak (Nunatak Helis \'nu-na-tak 'he-lis\) is a crown-shaped rocky peak of elevation 340 m in Vidin Heights on Varna Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Western Antarctica. The peak is named after the ancient Thra ...

, 3.73 km northeast of Samuel Peak and 5.08 km east-northeast of Miziya Peak (British survey in 1957-59 and mapping in 1968, Spanish mapping in 1991, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009).

Maps

* L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005. * L.L. Ivanov
Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands
Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009.

References

SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
Mountains of Livingston Island {{LivingstonIsland-geo-stub

Location

See also

Maps

References