Voysil Peak ( bg, връх Войсил, vrah Voysil, ) is the peak rising to 2743 m
[Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica.]
Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019 in
Maglenik Heights
Maglenik Heights ( bg, Мъгленишки възвишения, ‘Maglenishki Vazvisheniya’ \'m&-gle-nish-ki v&-zvi-'she-ni-ya\) are the heights rising to 2752 m , north-central
Sentinel Range in
Ellsworth Mountains,
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 contine ...
. It is surmounting
Kopsis Glacier tributaries to the north and east, and upper
Ellen Glacier
The Ellen Glacier is a glacier in the central Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains of Antarctica. It drains the eastern slopes of Mount Anderson and Long Gables and flows generally southeast for to Barnes Ridge, where it leaves the ran ...
to the southwest.
The peak is named after the settlement of Voysil in Southern Bulgaria.
Location
Voysil Peak is located at , which is 7.1 km east of
Mount Press
Mount Press is a peak rising to in the north-central Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. It is linked to Eyer Peak by Zvegor Saddle, and surmounts Embree Glacier to the north and Ellen Glacier to the southeast. Mount Press i ...
, 5.6 km south-southeast of
Bezden Peak
Bezden Peak ( bg, връх Безден, vrah Bezden, ) is the peak rising to 2975 m[Zimornitsa Peak
Zimornitsa Peak ( bg, връх Зиморница, vrah Zimornitsa, ) is the peak rising to 1600 m][Mount Gozur
Mount Gozur () is a mountain, high, in the Maglenik Heights of the central Sentinel Range, in the Ellsworth Mountains of Antarctica, situated just northwest of the head of Young Glacier and east of Mount Bentley. It was first mapped by the ...]
. US mapping in 1961, updated in 1988.
Maps
Vinson Massif. Scale 1:250 000 topographic map. Reston, Virginia: US Geological Survey, 1988.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly updated.
Notes
References
Voysil Peak.SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
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 datain English)
External links
Voysil Peak.Copernix satellite image
Ellsworth Mountains
Mountains of Ellsworth Land
Bulgaria and the Antarctic
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