Charrúa Gap

Charrúa Gap is a flat ice-covered saddle extending 2.2 kilometres in east-west direction between Castillo Nunatak and Charrúa Ridge on Hurd Peninsula, eastern Livingston Island at an elevation of 275 metres.

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Places of Interest

Highlights include Napier Peak and Saint Ivan Rilski Chapel.

Napier Peak

Peak

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Napier Peak is the partly ice-free peak rising to 380 m on Hurd Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is linked to Charrúa Gap to the north by a 1.5 km ice-covered col, and by an ice-covered saddle to Mirador Hill to the south-southwest, and surmounts Johnsons Glacier to the northwest and west, Huntress Glacier to the east, and False Bay to the south.

Saint Ivan Rilski Chapel

Church

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The St. Ivan Rilski Chapel at the St. Kliment Ohridski Base of Bulgaria, on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands is the first Eastern Orthodox edifice in Antarctica, the southernmost Eastern Orthodox building of worship in the world, and one of eight churches on Antarctica. Saint Ivan Rilski Chapel is situated 2½ km northwest of Charrúa Gap.