Svoge Knoll

Location of Bowles Ridge on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.

Svoge Knoll from the northern foothills of Pliska Ridge.

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

Svoge Knoll (Svogenska Mogila \'svo-gen-ska mo-'gi-la\) is an ice-covered peak rising to 560 m in Bowles Ridge, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Surmounting Perunika Glacier to the south and west.

The knoll is named after the town of Svoge in the western Balkan Mountains, Bulgaria.

Location

The knoll is located at 62°37′14″S 60°12′29″W / 62.62056°S 60.20806°W / -62.62056; -60.20806Coordinates: 62°37′14″S 60°12′29″W / 62.62056°S 60.20806°W / -62.62056; -60.20806, which is 620 m southwest of Mount Bowles, 3.1 km northeast of Orpheus Gate, 3.57 km east by north of Rezen Knoll and 1.12 km southeast of Chirpan Peak (Bulgarian topographic survey Tangra 2004/05).

Maps

L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.
L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4

References

SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

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

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