Tsarigrad Peak ( bg, Връх Цариград, vrah Tsarigrad, ) is sharp ice-covered peak rising to 1689 mBulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer
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Imeon Range Imeon Range ( bg, Хребет Имеон, ‘Hrebet Imeon’ \'hre-bet i-me-'on\) () is a mountain range occupying the interior of Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Extending 30 km in southwest-northeast direction bet ...

, Smith 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 195 ...

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. Overlooking

Armira Glacier Armira Glacier ( bg, ледник Армира, lednik Armira, ) is a long glacier on Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica draining the southeast slopes of Imeon Range southeast of Slaveykov Peak and east of Neofit Peak. I ...

to the southeast. The peak is named after the 1876

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Tsarigrad ''Tsargrad'' is a Slavic name for the city or land of Constantinople (present-day Istanbul in Turkey), the capital of the Byzantine Empire. It is rendered in several ways depending on the language, for instance Old Church Slavonic Цѣсарь ...

is the

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name for Constantinople) of the

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that determined the

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borders as of the second half of the 19th century.

Location

Tsarigrad Peak is located at , which is 2.5 km southwest of the island's summit

Mount Foster Mount Foster is a peak rising to in the Imeon Range on Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is the highest point of the South Shetland Islands archipelago. Mount Foster has triple peaks of which Mount Foster proper is the s ...

, 550 m south of

Slaveykov Peak Slaveykov Peak ( bg, Славейков Връх, Slaveykov vrah, ) () is the sharp peak rising to 1760 m in Imeon Range on Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The feature is situated 2 km southwest of the summit M ...

and 600 m northeast of

Neofit Peak Neofit Peak ( bg, връх Неофит, vrah Neofit, ) is an ice-covered peak rising to 1750 m in Imeon Range on Smith Island (South Shetland Islands), Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Situated 1.12 km south-southwest ...

. Bulgarian mapping in 2009.

Maps

Chart of South Shetland including Coronation Island, &c.
from the exploration of the sloop Dove in the years 1821 and 1822 by George Powell Commander of the same. Scale ca. 1:200000. London: Laurie, 1822. * L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2010. (First edition 2009. )
South Shetland Islands: Smith and Low Islands.
Scale 1:150000 topographic map No. 13677. British Antarctic Survey, 2009.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated. * L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Smith Island. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017.

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References

Tsarigrad Peak.

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Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.

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basic data
in English)

External links

Tsarigrad Peak.
Copernix satellite image Smith-Cliff-Frohlich

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