Svelten Peak is a sharp peak rising to 300 m on Hurd Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and surmounting False Bay to the southeast. It is the summit of the 600 m long, narrow and rocky Querchan Ridge descending southeastwards to the seashore.
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The peak is named by personnel of the nearby Spanish base Juan Carlos Primero and appears in the 2009 Bulgarian map of Livingston Island.[1]
Location edit
The peak is located at 62°41′30″S 60°21′20″W / 62.69167°S 60.35556°W which is 430 m southeast of Pirámide Peak, 670 m west-southwest of Moores Peak, 4.01 km north-northwest of Canetti Peak, 2.17 km east-northeast of MacGregor Peaks and 1.57 km east of Castellvi Peak (Spanish mapping in 1991 and Bulgarian in 2009).
Map edit
- Isla Livingston: Península Hurd. Mapa topográfico de escala 1:25000. Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército, 1991. (Map reproduced on p. 16 of the linked work)
- Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
- L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Smith Island. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017. ISBN 978-619-90008-3-0
Notes edit
- ^ 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