Hemus Peak
Hemus Peak is an ice-covered peak rising to 636 metres off the northwest extremity of Bowles Ridge in eastern Livingston Island. The feature is 850 metres long in east-west direction and 550 metres wide, and overlooks Kaliakra Glacier to the northeast and Perunika Glacier to the southwest.Photo: Apcbg, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Rayna Knyaginya Peak and Bowles West Peak.
Rayna Knyaginya Peak
Peak
Photo: Apcbg, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rayna Knyaginya Peak is a peak of elevation 680 m in western Bowles Ridge, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Surmounting Perunika Glacier to the south and northwest, and Kaliakra Glacier to the northeast.
Bowles West Peak
Peak
Photo: Apcbg, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bowles West Peak is a peak rising to 678 m at the western extremity of Bowles Ridge in eastern Livingston Island in Antarctica. The peak has precipitous and partly ice-free western slopes and overlooks Perunika Glacier to the southwest.
Chirpan Peak
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Chirpan Peak is an ice-covered 535 metres peak forming the western extremity of Bowles Ridge on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica overlooking Perunika Glacier to the west and south.
Hemus Peak
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 636 metres
- Description: mountain in Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Antarctica
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-62.60626° or 62° 36′ 23″ southLongitude
-60.22059° or 60° 13′ 14″ westElevation
636 metres (2,087 feet)Named after
Balkan MountainsOpen location code
379X9QVH+FQOpenStreetMap ID
node 9245494208OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakGeoNames ID
6634781Wikidata ID
Q5712845
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Satellite Map
Discover Hemus Peak from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Swedish—“Hemus Peak” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Хемус (връх)”
- Cebuano: “Hemus Peak”
- Chinese: “赫穆斯峰”
- Dutch: “Hemus Peak”
- German: “Hemus Peak”
- Ladin: “Hemus Peak”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hemus Peak”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hemus Peak”
- Swedish: “Hemus Peak”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Camp Academia and Ficheto Point.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Mount Bowles and Ticha Peak.
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