Tintyava Peak
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Tintyava Peak is the ice-covered peak rising to 950 m in the north foothills of Louis-Philippe Plateau 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. It is surmounting the upper course of Sestrimo Glacier
Sestrimo Glacier
Sestrimo Glacier is the 11 km long and 4 km wide glacier on the northwest side of Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula. Situated southwest of Ogoya Glacier, west-northwest of Broad Valley and north of Cugnot Ice Piedmont...

 to the east-southeast.

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

Location

Tintyava Peak is located at 63°31′02"S 58°14′10"W, which is 2.28 km west-southwest of Mount D’Urville, 9.57 km north-northwest of Kukuryak Bluff
Kukuryak Bluff
Kukuryak Bluff is the partly ice-free bluff rising to over 700 m at the end of a ridge descending eastwards from Louis-Philippe Plateau on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica...

 and 13.16 km east-northeast of Lardigo Peak
Lardigo Peak
Lardigo Peak is the ice-covered peak rising to 1158 m in Snegotin Ridge on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica.The peak is named after Lardigo Point on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast.-Location:...

. German-British mapping in 1996.

Map

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