St. Methodius Peak

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

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St. Methodius Peak from Bransfield Strait, with Prespa Glacier in the foreground.

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

St. Methodius Peak (Template:Langx, ) 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 St. Methodius (815-885 AD).

Location

The peak is located at Template:Coord, 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., 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), 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

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