Venchan Bluff ( bg, рид Венчан, rid Venchan, ) is the mostly ice-covered bluff rising to 1283 mReference Elevation Model of Antarctica.
Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019 at the end of a side ridge extending towards

Lanusse Bay Lanusse Bay () lies between Driencourt Point and Minot Point on the west side of Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. Its head is fed by Palilula, Gorichane and Djerassi Glaciers, The bay was named "Bahia Lanusse" by the Arge ...

from

Mount Parry Mount Parry is a mountain in Stribog Mountains, Antarctica (within the claims of the United Kingdom, Argentina and Chile.) with an elevation of .

Stribog Mountains Stribog Mountains ( bg, планина Стрибог, ‘Planina Stribog’ \pla-ni-'na 'stri-bog\) is the principal mountain system of Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica rising to 2498 mBrabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago,

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. It has steep and partly ice-free southwest, northwest and northeast slopes, and surmounts

Djerassi Glacier Djerassi Glacier ( bg, ледник Джераси, lednik Dzherasi, ) is a 2.8 km long and 1 km wide steep valley glacier situated south of Gorichane Glacier, west of the head of Malpighi Glacier, northwest of the head of Mackenzie ...

to the north. Venchan Bluff was first ascended by the French

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Mathieu Cortial, Lionel Daudet and Patrick Wagnon on 21 January 2010, as a part of their route to the island's summit Mount Parry following its northwestern spur and called ''Nouvelle vague'' (New Wave). D. Gildea
2009-10 Antarctic Peninsula summary.
''The American Alpine Journal 2010''. pp. 193-198. The peak is named after the settlement of Venchan in Northeastern Bulgaria.

Location

Venchan Bluff is located at , which is 2.46 km northwest of Mount Parry, 3.85 km east-northeast of

Minot Point Minot Point is a rock point midway along the west coast of Brabant Island, in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. It lies west of the summit of Mount Parry. The point was mapped from air photos taken by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd in 1956–57, an ...

and 6.3 km southeast of

Driencourt Point Driencourt Point () is a point 6 nautical miles (11 km) southeast of Claude Point on the west side of Brabant Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. It was first charted by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, and named by Jean-Baptiste ...

. British mapping in 1980 and 2008.

Maps

Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
British Antarctic Territory.
Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 62. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1980.
Brabant Island to Argentine Islands.
Scale 1:250000 topographic map. British Antarctic Survey, 2008.

Notes

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)
Venchan Peak.
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

Venchan Bluff.
Copernix satellite image Brabant-Island

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