Simeon Peak

Simeon Peak
Simeon Peak from the west slopes of Lyaskovets Peak, with Catalunyan Saddle in the foreground.
Highest point
Elevation	1,576 m (5,171 ft)
Geography
Location	Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica
Parent range	Tangra Mountains
Climbing
First ascent	unclimbed

Location of Tangra Mountains on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.

Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Simeon Peak (Vrah Simeon \'vr&h si-me-'on\) rises to 1,576 m in Friesland Ridge, Tangra Mountains, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The peak is linked to St. Boris Peak to the northeast by Paril Saddle and surmounts Huntress Glacier to the northwest, Ruen Icefall to the southwest, and Macy Glacier to the east.

The peak is named after Czar Simeon the Great of Bulgaria, 893-927 AD.

Location

The peak is located at 62°41′27″S 60°12′25″W / 62.69083°S 60.20694°W / -62.69083; -60.20694Coordinates: 62°41′27″S 60°12′25″W / 62.69083°S 60.20694°W / -62.69083; -60.20694, which is 2.48 km south-southwest of Mount Friesland, 1.85 km south-southwest of St. Boris Peak and 1.69 km north of St. Cyril Peak (British mapping in 1968, Argentine in 1980, Spanish in 1991, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009 from topographic surveys in 1995/96 and 2004/05).

Maps

• South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:200000 topographic map No. 3373. DOS 610 – W 62 58. 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., 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. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2010. ISBN 978-954-92032-9-5 (First edition 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4)
• Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.

References

• Simeon Peak. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
• Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)

This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.