Obzor Hill
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Obzor Hill is the hill rising to 490 m at the northeast tip of 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 2.46 km west-southwest of Cape Dubouzet
Cape Dubouzet
Cape Dubouzet is a cape which marks the northeast extremity of Antarctic Peninsula. Charted in 1838 by a French expedition under Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville, who named it for Lieutenant Joseph Dubouzet of the expedition ship Zelee....

, 1.18 km north of Mount Bransfield
Mount Bransfield
Mount Bransfield is a prominent conical-topped, ice-covered mountain, high, rising southwest of Cape Dubouzet at the northeast tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. It was discovered by a French expedition, 1837–40, under Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville, who named it for Edward Bransfield, Master,...

 and 1.87 km northwest of Vishegrad Knoll
Vishegrad Knoll
Vishegrad Knoll is the hill rising to 550 m at the northeast tip of Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula. Situated 2.21 km south-southwest of Cape Dubouzet, 1.87 km southeast of Obzor Hill and 1.83 km east of Mount Bransfield....

. Surmounting Mott Snowfield
Mott Snowfield
Mott Snowfield is a snowfield in northeast Trinity Peninsula between Laclavere Plateau and Antarctic Sound. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Peter G. Mott, leader of Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition , 1955-57.-Map:* Scale 1:250000 topographic...

 to the west.

The hill is named after the town of Obzor
Obzor
Obzor is a small town and seaside resort on the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria. It is part of Nesebar municipality, Burgas Province.The Thracian and ancient Greek name of Obzor was Naulochos, a small port on the coast of Thrace, a colony of Mesembria. The ancient Romans named it Templum Iovis ;...

 in eastern 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

Obzor Hill is located at 63°16′00"S 57°05′43"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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