Besapara Hill

Besapara Hill (Halm Besapara \'h&lm be-sa-'pa-ra\) is a hill of 250m projecting from Sopot Ice Piedmont in Delchev Ridge, Tangra Mountains on Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands in Antarctica. The hill was mapped in the Bulgarian topographic survey Tangra 2004/05, and is named after the ancient Thracian town of Besapara, ancestor of the present Bulgarian city of Pazardzhik.

Location of Tangra Mountains on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Besapara Hill
Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Location

The hill is located at 62°37′10″S 59°52′02″W which is 500m north of Kaloyan Nunatak, 2 km east of Vaptsarov Peak and 1.5 km west of Mesta Peak.

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References


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

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