Penca Hill is a rocky hill rising to 217 m in Dospey Heights

Dospey Heights

Dospey Heights are the ice-free heights on Ray Promontory in the northwestern part of Byers Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Extending 6 km southeastwards from Essex Point and Start Point, and 2.6 km wide...

 on Byers Peninsula

Byers Peninsula

Byers Peninsula is a mainly ice-free peninsula forming the west end of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands. It occupies , and includes the small freshwater Basalt Lake. The area was visited by early 19th century American and British sealers who came almost exclusively from New England,...

, 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 feature is descriptively named, the Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

 penca referring to a fleshy leaf or joint of a plant.

Location

Penca Hill is located at 62°36′04.9"S 61°07′23.2"W which is 2.77 km east-southeast of Start Hill

Start Hill

Start Hill is a rocky hill rising to 265 m, the summit of Dospey Heights on Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.The feature takes its name from the adjacent Start Point.-Location:...

, 2.28 km east-southeast of Dulo Hill

Dulo Hill

Dulo Hill is a rocky hill rising to 210 m in Dospey Heights on Byers Peninsula of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Surmounting President Beaches to the south....

, 1.93 km southeast of Battenberg Hill

Battenberg Hill

Battenberg Hill is a rocky hill rising to 166 m in Dospey Heights on Byers Peninsula of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Situated 1.8 km east of Start Hill, 1.8 km south of Voyteh Point and 2.19 km northwest of Penca Hill.The hill is named after Prince...

, 2.15 km northwest of Varadero Hill

Varadero Point

Varadero Point is a point projecting 620 m into Barclay Bay from Robbery Beaches on Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and forming the west side of the entrance to Baba Tonka Cove...

 and 4.36 km north-northwest of Chester Cone

Chester Cone

Chester Cone is the ice-free peak rising to 188 m in the central part of Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica surmounting Midge Lake to the northwest....

(Chilean mapping in 1971, detailed Spanish mapping in 1992, and Bulgarian mapping in 2009).

Maps

• Península Byers, Isla Livingston. Mapa topográfico a escala 1:25000. Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército, 1992.
• 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