Erul Heights are the heights rising to 1092 m (Gigen Peak

Gigen Peak

Gigen Peak is the summit of Erul Heights on Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula, rising to 1092 m on the south side of Benz Pass, and surmounting Russell East Glacier to the west and south, and Cugnot Ice Piedmont to the east....

) on Trinity Peninsula

Trinity Peninsula

Trinity Peninsula is the extreme northern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, extending northeastward for about from a line connecting Cape Kjellman and Cape Longing. Dating back more than a century, chartmakers used various names for this portion of the Antarctic peninsula, each name having some...

 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. They are bounded by Russell East Glacier

Russell East Glacier

Russell East Glacier is a glacier, 6 nautical miles long and 3 nautical miles wide, which lies at the north end of Detroit Plateau and flows from Mount Canicula eastward into Prince Gustav Channel on the south side of Trinity Peninsula...

 to the south and Cugnot Ice Piedmont

Cugnot Ice Piedmont

Cugnot Ice Piedmont is an ice piedmont in Trinity Peninsula, about 15 nautical miles long and between 3 and 6 nautical miles wide, extending from Russell East Glacier to Eyrie Bay and bounded on the landward side by Louis Philippe Plateau. Mapped from surveys by Falkland Islands...

 to the north, extending 8 km from Benz Pass

Benz Pass

Benz Pass is a narrow pass between the cliffs of Drenta Bluff in the south extremity of Louis Philippe Plateau and Gigen Peak in the northwest part of Erul Heights, situated northeast of the head of Russell East Glacier, Trinity Peninsula...

 in east-southeast direction towards Smokinya Cove

Smokinya Cove

Smokinya Cove is the 3.5 km wide cove on Prince Gustav Channel indenting for 2.2 km the southeast coast of Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. It is entered north of Azimuth Hill....

, and surmounting Prince Gustav Channel

Prince Gustav Channel

The Prince Gustav Channel was named in 1903 after Crown Prince Gustav of Sweden by Otto Nordenskiöld of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition.The channel is bounded on the west by the Antarctic Peninsula and on the east by James Ross Island...

, Weddell Sea

Weddell Sea

The Weddell Sea is part of the Southern Ocean and contains the Weddell Gyre. Its land boundaries are defined by the bay formed from the coasts of Coats Land and the Antarctic Peninsula. The easternmost point is Cape Norvegia at Princess Martha Coast, Queen Maud Land. To the east of Cape Norvegia is...

to the southeast.

The heights are named after the settlement of Erul in Western Bulgaria.

Location

Erul Heights are centred at 63°42′10"S 58°21′10"W. German-British mapping in 1996.

Map

• Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.