Canetti Peak
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Canetti Peak is a 400 m peak in the Friesland Ridge
, Tangra Mountains
, eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands
, Antarctica. The peak has precipitous and ice-free western slopes and overlooks Zagore Beach
and False Bay
to the west and north, and Charity Glacier
to the south. The peak was named after Elias Canetti
(1905–1994), a Bulgarian-born Nobel laureate in literature.
, 2.13 km north by west of the summit of Veleka Ridge
and 1.62 km south-southeast of Ogosta Point
.
The peak was mapped by Bulgaria in 2005 and 2009.
Friesland Ridge
Friesland Ridge is a ridge on Livingston Island in the South Shetlands, part of the Tangra Mountains. The summit, Mount Friesland, which rises to , is the northwesternmost of the ridge’s six main peaks...
, Tangra Mountains
Tangra Mountains
Tangra Mountains form the principal mountain range of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica...
, eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands
South Shetland Islands
The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands, lying about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, with a total area of . By the Antarctic Treaty of 1959, the Islands' sovereignty is neither recognized nor disputed by the signatories and they are free for use by any signatory for...
, Antarctica. The peak has precipitous and ice-free western slopes and overlooks Zagore Beach
Zagore Beach
Zagore Beach faces False Bay on Livingston Island, Antarctica and extends for 4 km on the Rozhen Peninsula between Charity Glacier and the Ruen Icefall. The beach is surmounted by Canetti Peak and MacKay Peak...
and False Bay
False Bay
False Bay is a body of water defined by Cape Hangklip and the Cape Peninsula in the extreme South-West of South Africa.- Description and location :...
to the west and north, and Charity Glacier
Charity Glacier
Charity Glacier is a glacier lying north of Barnard Point on Rozhen Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-names Committee in 1958 after the brig Charity Charity Glacier is a glacier lying north of Barnard Point on Rozhen...
to the south. The peak was named after Elias Canetti
Elias Canetti
Elias Canetti was a Bulgarian-born modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer. He wrote in German and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981, "for writings marked by a broad outlook, a wealth of ideas and artistic power".-Life:...
(1905–1994), a Bulgarian-born Nobel laureate in literature.
Location
The peak is located at 62°43′25.3"S 60°19′10"W which is 1.06 km west-southwest of MacKay PeakMacKay Peak
MacKay Peak is an ice-covered pyramidal peak rising to 700 m in the Friesland Ridge of Tangra Mountains, rises to 770 m in Friesland Ridge, Tangra Mountains, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica...
, 2.13 km north by west of the summit of Veleka Ridge
Veleka Ridge
Veleka Ridge is a predominantly ice-free ridge extending 3 km between Charity Glacier in the north and Botev Point in the south, and 1.3 km wide, in the southwest extremity of Friesland Ridge, Tangra Mountains on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The ice-free...
and 1.62 km south-southeast of Ogosta Point
Ogosta Point
Ogosta Point is located in the central part of Zagore Beach on the east coast of False Bay, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Situated on Rozhen Peninsula 5.35 km north of Barnard Point, 4.4 km west of St. Methodius Peak and 3.45 km east of Castro Peak...
.
The peak was mapped by Bulgaria in 2005 and 2009.
Maps
- L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.
- L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4
