Enrique Hill

Enrique Hill (Bulgarian: хълм Енрике, ‘Halm Enrique’ \'h&lm en-'ri-ke\) is the ice-free hill rising to 156 m in Dospey Heights on the Ray Promontory of Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It surmounts Barclay Bay to the east and northeast, and Diomedes Lake on the southeast

Location of Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.

Topographic map of Byers Peninsula featuring Antarctic Specially Protected Area *ASPA 126* and its two restricted zones

Topographic map of Livingston Island and Smith Island.

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 Jordi Enrique from Juan Carlos I Base who, together with Francesc Sàbat, made the first ascent of the island's summit Mount Friesland (1700 m) on 30 December 1991.

Location edit

Enrique Hill is located at 62°35′55.3″S 61°07′37.1″W / 62.598694°S 61.126972°W / -62.598694; -61.126972, which is 1.54 km east-northeast of Dulo Hill, 850 m east-southeast of Battenberg Hill and 1.4 km northwest of Penca Hill. Spanish mapping in 1992, and Bulgarian in 2009 and 2017.

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
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

^ Management Plan for Antarctic Specially Protected Area No. 126 Byers Peninsula. Measure 4 (2016), ATCM XXXIX Final Report. Santiago, 2016

References edit

Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
Enrique Hill. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica

External links edit

Enrique Hill. Copernix satellite image

This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.

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[1] Management Plan for Antarctic Specially Protected Area No. 126 Byers Peninsula. Measure 4 (2016), ATCM XXXIX Final Report. Santiago, 2016

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