Trave Peak
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Trave Peak is the partly ice-covered peak rising to 850 m in the southeast foothills of Detroit Plateau
Detroit Plateau
Detroit Plateau is a major interior plateau of Graham Land, with heights between 1,500 and 1,800 m. Its northeast limit is marked by the south wall of Russell West Glacier, from which it extends some in a general southwest direction to Herbert Plateau. The plateau was observed from the air by...

 on Nordenskjöld Coast
Nordenskjold Coast
Nordenskjold Coast is that portion of the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Longing and Cape Fairweather. The name was proposed in 1909 by Edwin Swift Balch, for Otto Nordenskiöld, Swedish geographer and leader of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901-04, who explored this coast...

 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 has precipitous and partly ice-free west and north slopes, and overlooks Edgeworth Glacier
Edgeworth Glacier
Edgeworth Glacier is a glacier 12 nautical miles long, flowing southwest from the edge of Detroit Plateau below Wolseley Buttress to the ice shelf west of Sobral Peninsula, Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land. Mapped from surveys by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey . Named by United Kingdom...

 to the north, east and south.

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

Location

Trave Peak is located at 64°17′15"S 59°54′59"W, which is 6.92 km south-southwest of Paramun Buttress
Paramun Buttress
Paramun Buttress is the ice-covered buttress rising to 1500 m on the southeast side of Detroit Plateau on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica, and situated between tributaries to Edgeworth Glacier...

, 6.92 km west by south of Chipev Nunatak
Chipev Nunatak
Chipev Nunatak is the narrow, rocky hill extending 2.9 km in north-south direction and rising to 800 m on the east side of Edgeworth Glacier on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica....

 and 11.28 km northeast of Darzalas Peak
Darzalas Peak
Darzalas Peak is the rocky, mostly ice-free peak rising to 1300 m in the south foothills of Detroit Plateau on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica, situated between Bombardier and Dinsmoor Glaciers.The peak is named after the Thracian god Darzalas....

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Maps

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