Sipey Peak
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Sipey Peak is the peak rising to 2200 m in Veregava Ridge
Veregava Ridge
Veregava Ridge is the ridge rising to 3100 m in the northeast foothills of Vinson Massif in Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica, and extending 15.7 km in southwest-northeast direction and 6 km in southeast-northwest direction...

, central Sentinel Range
Sentinel Range
The Sentinel Range is a major mountain range situated northward of Minnesota Glacier and forming the northern half of the Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica. The range trends NNW-SSE for about and is 24 to 48 km wide...

 in Ellsworth Mountains
Ellsworth Mountains
The Ellsworth Mountains are the highest mountain ranges in Antarctica, forming a long and wide chain of mountains in a north to south configuration on the western margin of the Ronne Ice Shelf. They are bisected by Minnesota Glacier to form the northern Sentinel Range and the southern Heritage...

, Antarctica. It surmounts Dater Glacier
Dater Glacier
The Dater Glacier is a steep valley glacier in Antarctica, long and from 1.6 km to 4.8 km wide, flowing NE in a sinuous course from the eastern slopes of Vinson Massif to Rutford Ice Stream which borders the eastern flank of the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains...

 to the west and north, and Berisad Glacier
Berisad Glacier
Berisad Glacier is the 4.5 km long and 1.5 km wide glacier in Veregava Ridge, central Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. It is draining north-northwestwards from Kushla Peak to join Dater Glacier northeast of Sipey Peak....

 to the east.

The peak is named after the settlement of Sipey in Southern Bulgaria.

Location

Sipey Peak is located at 78°24′46"S 84°56′37"W, which is 5.26 km north of Mount Waldron
Mount Waldron
Mount Waldron is a mountain 3 nautical miles north of Mount Tuck, surmounting Veregava Ridge in the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains. Discovered by U.S. Navy Squadron VX-6 on photographic flights of December 14–15, 1959, and mapped from these photos by United States Geological Survey . Named...

, 9.46 km east by north of Mount Segers, 5.71 km south-southeast of Mount Farrell and 4.15 km northwest of Kushla Peak
Kushla Peak
Kushla Peak is the peak rising to 2300 m in Veregava Ridge, central Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. It surmounts Berisad Glacier to the north-northwest and Hansen Glacier to the southeast....

. US mapping in 1961, updated in 1988.

Maps

  • Vinson Massif. Scale 1:250 000 topographic map. Reston, Virginia: US Geological Survey, 1988.
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