Volov Peak [SEP] continent
Volov Peak
Volov Peak (, ‘Vrah Volov’ \'vr&h 'vo-lov\) is the rocky peak rising to 1148 m at the southwest extremity of Korten Ridge on Davis Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. It is surmounting Temple Glacier to the southwest.
The peak is named after Panayot Volov (1850-1876), a leader of the 1876 April Uprising for Bulgarian independence.
Location.
Volov Peak is located at , which is 16.6 km southeast of Havilland Point, 1.84 km south-
southwest of Chubra Peak and 5.5 km west of Mount Bris. German-British mapping in 1996.
Map.
- Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.
References.
- Volov Peak. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
- Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
External links.
- Volov Peak. Copernix satellite image