Shishman Peak

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

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Shishman Peak from Bransfield Strait, with Magura Glacier in the foreground.

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Topographic map of Livingston Island and Smith Island.

Shishman Peak (Template:Langx, ) rises to over 800 m in the east extremity of Levski Ridge, Tangra Mountains, eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The peak overlooks Iskar Glacier and Bruix Cove to the north-northeast and Magura Glacier to the south. The peak is named after Czar Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria, 1371-1395 AD.

Location

The peak is located at , which is west of Devin Saddle, 780 m northeast of Plovdiv Peak, 1.43 km west-northwest of Kuber Peak and 3.45 km south-southwest of Rila Point (Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009).

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. Template:ISBN (First edition 2009. Template:ISBN)
• Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly updated.
• L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Smith Island. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017. Template:ISBN

References

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

External links

• Shishman Peak. Copernix satellite image

This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission. Template:LivingstonIsland-geo-stub Template:Antarctica-mountain-stub