St. Methodius Peak
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St. Methodius Peak ( bg, връх Св. Методий, vrah Sv. Metodiy, ) rises to approximately 1,180m in Friesland Ridge, Tangra Mountains, Livingston Island, Antarctica and surmounts Ruen Icefall to the north-northwest, Prespa Glacier to the southeast and Charity Glacier to the southwest. Linked to St. Cyril Peak by Vladaya Saddle. The peak is named after Saint Methodius of Thessaloniki, St. Methodius (815-885 AD).


Location

The peak is located at , which is 5.89 km south-southwest of Mount Friesland, 1.97 km southwest of St. Cyril Peak, 3.24 km north-northwest of Gela Point, 3.83 km east of Canetti Peak and 6.37 km south-southeast of Napier Peak (Bulgarian topographic survey in 1995/96, and mapping in 2005 and 2009).


Maps


South Shetland Islands.
Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Sheet W 62 60. Tolworth, UK, 1968. * Islas Livingston y Decepción. Mapa topográfico a escala 1:100000. Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército, 1991. * S. Soccol, D. Gildea and J. Bath
Livingston Island, Antarctica.
Scale 1:100000 satellite map. The Omega Foundation, USA, 2004. * L.L. Ivanov et al., :Image:Livingston-Greenwich-map.jpg, Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands (from English Strait to Morton Strait, with illustrations and ice-cover distribution), 1:100000 scale topographic map, Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, Sofia, 2005 * L.L. Ivanov. :commons:File:Livingston-Island-Map-2010.jpg, Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2010. (First edition 2009. )
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.


References


St. Methodius Peak.
SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.
Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)


External links


St. Methodius Peak.
Copernix satellite image Tangra Mountains {{Climbing-stub