Bankya Peak is the peak rising to 840 m in Korten Ridge

Korten Ridge

Korten Ridge is the ridge extending 18 km in south-north direction and 9 km wide, rising to 1673 m on Davis Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica...

 east of Lanchester Bay

Lanchester Bay

Lanchester Bay is a bay 7 nautical miles wide lying east of Havilland Point, along the west coast of Graham Land. Photographed by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. in 1955-57 and mapped from these photos by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey . Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names...

 and west of Sabine Glacier

Sabine Glacier

Sabine Glacier is a 13.5 km long glacier on the north side of Detroit Plateau, flowing northwards along the east slopes of Korten Ridge, and terminating at the sea in Jordanoff Bay on Davis Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. Captain Henry Foster gave the name "Cape Sabine" in 1829 to a feature...

 on Davis Coast

Davis Coast

Davis Coast is that portion of the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Kjellman and Cape Sterneck. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Captain John Davis, the American sealer who claimed to have made the first recorded landing on the continent of...

 in Graham Land

Graham Land

Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...

, Antarctica.

The peak is named after the town of Bankya

Bankya

Bankya is an upscale town and district in western Bulgaria. It is administratively part of greater Sofia.The district is famous for the mineral springs and baths that have been used for their medicinal properties for hundreds of years. Prime Minister of Bulgaria Boyko Borisov is a native...

 in western Bulgaria

Bulgaria

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Location

Bankya Peak is located at 63°53′19"S 59°53′23"W, which is 5.28 km south-southeast of Wennersgaard Point

Wennersgaard Point

Wennersgaard Point is a point forming both the east side of the entrance to Lanchester Bay and the southwest side of the entrance to Jordanoff Bay on Davis Coast, the west coast of Graham Land in Antarctica. First charted by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition in Nov.-Dec. 1902 and named after Ole C...

, 6km northeast of Milkov Point

Milkov Point

Milkov Point is a conspicuous rocky point on the east side of Lanchester Bay formed by an offshoot of Chanute Peak on Davis Coast in Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula...

, 4.36 km north of Chanute Peak

Chanute Peak

Chanute Peak is a peak in Korten Ridge on the east side of Lanchester Bay, south of Wennersgaard Point, Davis Coast in Graham Land. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Octave Chanute, American designer of gliders who first introduced moveable planes for the purpose of...

 and 6.55 km west-northwest of Velichkov Knoll

Velichkov Knoll

Velichkov Knoll is the peak rising to 970 m east of Sabine Glacier and west of Andrew Glacier on Davis Coast in Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula. Situated 6.55 km east-southeast of Bankya Peak, 5.25 km northeast of Sredorek Peak and 6.3 km southwest of Nikyup Point.The peak is named after...

. German-British mapping in 1996.

Map

• Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.