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Sofia Peak (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Sofia Peak (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Peak
This name originates from Bulgaria. It is part of the Bulgaria Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
The ice covered peak rising to 1655 m in Levski Ridge, Tangra Mountains on Livingston Island in the South Shetlans Islands. Situated 470 m NW of the summit point of Great Needle Peak with which it forms a twin peak, 3 km NE of Silistra Peak, 1.25 km ESE of St. Ivan Rilski Col, 1.84 km SSE of Plana Peak, 1.6 km S of Tutrakan Peak and 2.23 km SW of Helmet Peak. First ascent by the Bulgarians Doychin Boyanov, Nikolay Petkov and Aleksander Shopov on 8 January 2015. Bulgarian mapping in 2005, 2009 and 2017
Named after the capital city of Bulgaria.
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