Vidin Heights
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Vidin Heights (Template:Langx, Script error: No such module "IPA".) are predominantly ice-covered heights rising to Script error: No such module "convert". on Varna Peninsula, eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The feature is approximately Script error: No such module "convert". long from the north end of Leslie Gap east-northeastwards to Inott Point and Script error: No such module "convert". north-northeastwards to Sayer Nunatak.
The summit, Miziya Peak, is located Script error: No such module "convert". north by east of Mount Bowles, Script error: No such module "convert". north-northeast of Leslie Hill, Script error: No such module "convert". south of Williams Point and Script error: No such module "convert". west of Edinburgh Hill. The heights feature also Samuel Peak Script error: No such module "convert". east-southeast of Miziya Peak, and Sharp Peak at their east-northeast extremity. The heights surmount Saedinenie Snowfield to the northwest, Rose Valley Glacier to the northeast, Debelt Glacier and Panega Glacier to the southeast, and Kaliakra Glacier to the south.
The feature is named after the city of Vidin in northwestern Bulgaria. This is one of the Bulgarian names bestowed on hitherto nameless geographical features by the Tangra 2004/05 Expedition.
Location
The heights' midpoint is located at Script error: No such module "Coordinates". (UK Directorate of Overseas Surveys mapping in 1968, rough Argentine mapping in 1980, and Bulgarian topographic survey Tangra 2004/05 and mapping in 2005 and 2009).
See also
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, 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
- A. Kamburov and L. Ivanov. Bowles Ridge and Central Tangra Mountains: Livingston Island, Antarctica. Scale 1:25000 map. Sofia: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2023. Template:ISBN
References
- Vidin Heights. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
- Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
- L.L. Ivanov, Livingston Island: Tangra Mountains, Komini Peak, west slope new rock route; Lyaskovets Peak, first ascent; Zograf Peak, first ascent; Vidin Heights, Melnik Peak, Melnik Ridge, first ascent, The American Alpine Journal, 2005, 312–315.
- Antarctica: Livingston Island, Climb Magazine, Issue 14, Kettering, UK, April 2006, pp. 89-91.
External links
Vidin Heights. Copernix satellite image
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.