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Podem Peak

Coordinates: 64°16′37″S 62°12′22″W / 64.27694°S 62.20611°W / -64.27694; -62.20611
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Location of Brabant Island in the Antarctic Peninsula region.

Podem Peak (Bulgarian: връх Подем, romanizedvrah Podem, IPA: [ˈvrɤx poˈdɛm]) is the ice-covered peak of elevation 875 m[1] in the southeast part of Basarbovo Ridge in Stribog Mountains on Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. It has steep and partly ice-free south slopes, and surmounts Malpighi Glacier to the southwest and Svetovrachene Glacier to the northeast.

The peak is named after the settlement of Podem in Northern Bulgaria.

Location

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Podem Peak is located at 64°16′37″S 62°12′22″W / 64.27694°S 62.20611°W / -64.27694; -62.20611, which is 3.23 km southeast of Mediolana Bluff, 4.54 km southwest of Einthoven Hill, and 2.7 km west-northwest of Bov Point formed by an offshoot of the peak. British mapping in 1980 and 2008.

Maps

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  • Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.

Notes

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  1. ^ Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica. Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019

References

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Brabant Island seen from northeast, with Anvers Island (on the right) and Antarctic Peninsula in the background; Stribog Mountains occupy most of the central and the right, near part of the island.

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