Svelten Peak Explained

Svelten Peak is a sharp peak rising to 300 m on Hurd Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and surmounting False Bay to the southeast. It is the summit of the 600 m long, narrow and rocky Querchan Ridge descending southeastwards to the seashore.

The peak is named by personnel of the nearby Spanish base Juan Carlos Primero and appears in the 2009 Bulgarian map of Livingston Island.[1]

Location

The peak is located at -62.6917°N -60.3556°W which is 430 m southeast of Pirámide Peak, 670 m west-southwest of Moores Peak, 4.01 km north-northwest of Canetti Peak, 2.17 km east-northeast of MacGregor Peaks and 1.57 km east of Castellvi Peak (Spanish mapping in 1991 and Bulgarian in 2009).

Map

Notes and References

  1. L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009.