Dulo Hill (Bulgarian: хълм Дуло, ‘Halm Dulo’ \'h&lm 'du-lo\) is a rocky hill rising to 210 m (690 ft) in Dospey Heights on Byers Peninsula of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It overlooks President Beaches to the south.
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![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Byers_Peninsula%2C_north-western_part.jpg/220px-Byers_Peninsula%2C_north-western_part.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/ASPA-126-Byers-Peninsula.png/220px-ASPA-126-Byers-Peninsula.png)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Livingston-Island-Map-2010.jpg/220px-Livingston-Island-Map-2010.jpg)
The feature is part of the Antarctic Specially Protected Area ASPA 126 Byers Peninsula, situated in one of its restricted zones.[1]
The hill is named after the Bulgarian ruling dynasty of Dulo (7th–10th century).
Location
editDulo Hill is located at 62°36′05.2″S 61°09′22.5″W / 62.601444°S 61.156250°W which is 1.2 km (0.75 mi) southeast of Start Hill, 2.52 km (1.57 mi) south of Voyteh Point and 2.49 km (1.55 mi) west-northwest of Penca Hill (British mapping in 1968, Spanish in 1992, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009).
Maps
edit- Península Byers, Isla Livingston. Mapa topográfico a escala 1:25000. Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército, 1992.
- 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, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4
Notes
edit- ^ Management Plan for Antarctic Specially Protected Area No. 126 Byers Peninsula. Measure 4 (2016), ATCM XXXIX Final Report. Santiago, 2016
References
edit- Dulo Hill. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
- Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
External links
edit- Dulo Hill. Copernix satellite image
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.