Volov Peak is the rocky peak rising to 1148 m at the southwest extremity of Korten Ridge

Korten Ridge

Korten Ridge is the ridge extending 18 km in south-north direction and 9 km wide, rising to 1673 m on Davis Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica...

 on Davis Coast

Davis Coast

Davis Coast is that portion of the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Kjellman and Cape Sterneck. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Captain John Davis, the American sealer who claimed to have made the first recorded landing on the continent of...

 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 Temple Glacier

Temple Glacier

Temple Glacier is a glacier flowing into the south side of Lanchester Bay on the west coast of Graham Land. Photographed by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. in 1955-57 and mapped from these photos by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey...

 to the southwest.

The peak is named after Panayot Volov (1850-1876), a leader of the 1876 April Uprising

April Uprising

The April Uprising was an insurrection organised by the Bulgarians in the Ottoman Empire from April to May 1876, which indirectly resulted in the re-establishment of Bulgaria as an autonomous nation in 1878...

 for Bulgarian independence.

Location

Volov Peak is located at 63°59′06"S 59°55′53"W, which is 16.6 km southeast of Havilland Point

Havilland Point

Havilland Point is a point 2 nautical miles east of Cape Page on the west coast of Graham Land. Photographed by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. in 1955-57 and mapped from these photos by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey . Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960 for...

, 1.84 km south-southwest of Chubra Peak

Chubra Peak

Chubra Peak is the peak rising to 1422 m east of Temple Glacier and south of Kasabova Glacier in Korten Ridge on Davis Coast in Graham Land, Antarctic.The peak is named after the settlement of Chubra in eastern Bulgaria.-Location:...

 and 5.5 km west of Mount Bris

Mount Bris

Mount Bris is a broad ice-covered mountain with precipitous and partly ice-free slopes except to the southeast, the summit of Korten Ridge on Davis Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. The peak rises to west of the head of Sabine Glacier and south of Cape Kater...

. German-British mapping in 1996.

Map

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