Canetti Peak

File:Tangra-Mountains-location-map.png on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands]]

File:Canetti Peak.jpg on the left and Charity Glacier on the right]]

File:Livingston-Island-Map-2010-15.png and Smith Island]]

Canetti Peak ({{langx|bg|връх Канети|vrah Kaneti}}, {{IPA|bg|ˈvrɤx kɐˈnɛti|IPA}}) is a 400 m peak in the Friesland Ridge, Tangra Mountains, eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The peak has precipitous and ice-free western slopes and overlooks Zagore Beach and False Bay to the west and north, and Charity Glacier to the south. The peak was named after Elias Canetti (1905–1994), a Bulgarian-born Nobel laureate in literature.

Location

The peak is located at {{coord|62|43|25.3|S|60|19|10|W|display=inline,title}} which is 1.06 km west-southwest of MacKay Peak, 2.13 km north by west of the summit of Veleka Ridge and 1.62 km south-southeast of Ogosta Point.

The peak was mapped by Bulgaria in 2005 and 2009.

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. [http://apcbg.org/image023.jpg 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}}

References

[https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/scar/display_name.cfm?gaz_id=134543 Canetti Peak.] SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
[http://apcbg.org/gazet-bg.pdf Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.] Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, [http://apcbg.org/gazet.pdf basic data] in English)

External links

[https://copernix.io/#?where=-60.32128935980221,-62.72396934135676,15&?query=&?map_type=hybrid Canetti Peak.] Adjusted Copernix satellite image

Category:Tangra Mountains