Ledenika Peak
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Ledenika Peak is the peak rising to 1020 m in Srednogorie Heights
Srednogorie Heights
Srednogorie Heights are the heights rising to 1220 m on the northwest side of Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula. Situated east of Bone Bay, west of Louis-Philippe Plateau, north of Russell West Glacier and south of Malorad Glacier...

 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...

, Antarctic Peninsula
Antarctic Peninsula
The Antarctic Peninsula is the northernmost part of the mainland of Antarctica. It extends from a line between Cape Adams and a point on the mainland south of Eklund Islands....

. Situated 2.68 km southwest of Razvigor Peak
Razvigor Peak
Razvigor Peak is the peak rising to 1110 m in Srednogorie Heights on Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula. Situated 2.49 km west-southwest of Mount Ignatiev, 3.7 km south-southwest of Corner Peak, 6.86 km east-southeast of Hanson Hill, 2.68 km northeast of Ledenika Peak and 11.76 km north of...

, 6 km southeast of Hanson Hill
Hanson Hill
Hanson Hill is a snow-covered hill with two lower summits, one to the north and one to the south, standing 4 nautical miles southeast of Cape Roquemaurel and 3 km west-northwest of Zanoge Hill on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. This hill was roughly charted but left unnamed by...

, 6.66 km east of Wimple Dome
Wimple Dome
Wimple Dome is an ice-covered hill, 725 m, standing 2 nautical miles south of Hanson Hill and 2 nautical miles east of Bone Bay on the north side of Trinity Peninsula...

 and 10.89 km north-northwest of Sirius Knoll
Sirius Knoll
Sirius Knoll is a conspicuous ice-covered knoll, 1,010 m, marking the northeast end of Detroit Plateau in the central part of Trinity Peninsula. Charted in 1946 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey and named after Sirius, the dog star.-Map:...

. Surmounting Malorad Glacier
Malorad Glacier
Malorad Glacier is the 14 km long and 10.5 km wide glacier on Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula. Situated northeast of Hanson Hill, north of Srednogorie Heights, northwest of Louis-Philippe Plateau and southwest of Marescot Ridge...

 to the north and Russell West Glacier
Russell West Glacier
Russell West Glacier is a glacier, 11 nautical miles long and 4 nautical miles wide, which lies immediately north of Detroit Plateau and flows from Mount Canicula westward into Bone Bay on the north side of Trinity Peninsula...

 to the south.

The peak is named after Ledenika Cave
Ledenika
Ledenika is a cave in the Northwestern parts of the Balkan Mountains, 16km away from the Bulgarian town of Vratsa, its entrance being at 830m above sea level. It features an abundance of galleries and impressive karst formations including stalactites and stalagmites, dating back a thousand years....

 in northwestern Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

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Location

Ledenika Peak is located at 63°37′42"S 58°44′48"W. German-British mapping in 1996.

Map

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