Mount Tsotsorkov

Mount Tsotsorkov (Bulgarian: Цоцорков връх, romanized: Tsotsorkov vrah, IPA: [t͡soˈt͡sɔrkov ˈvrɤx]) is the rocky, partly ice-covered mountain extending 7.6 km in north-south direction, 3 km wide and rising to 1615 m[1] in the northwest foothills of Forbidden Plateau on Danco Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. It surmounts Bagshawe Glacier to the southwest, and Andvord Bay and its southernmost part Lester Cove to the north where the ridge ends in Forbes Point.

Location of Danco Coast on Antarctic Peninsula.

The mountain is named after the Bulgarian industrialist Lachezar Tsotsorkov for his sustained support for the Bulgarian Antarctic programme.

Location

Mount Tsotsorkov is located at 64°56′26.5″S 62°29′42″W, which is 12.7 km east-southeast of Mount Inverleith, and 19.5 km northwest of Travnik Buttress on Oscar II Coast. British mapping in 1980.

Maps
  • British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 62. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1980.
  • Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.

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

References

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


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