
Christoff Cliff (Hristov Kamak \'hris-tov 'ka-m&k\) is a rocky cliff forming
Aytos Point
Aytos Point (Nos Aytos \'nos 'ay-tos\) is a point on the coast of Bransfield Strait, Livingston Island, Antarctica formed by an offshoot of Christoff Cliff. The point was named after the Bulgarian town of Aytos.
Location
Aytos Point is located ...
on the coast of
Bransfield Strait
Bransfield Strait or Fleet Sea ( es, Estrecho de Bransfield, Mar de la Flota) is a body of water about wide extending for in a general northeast – southwest direction between the South Shetland Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula.
History ...
, eastern
Livingston Island
Livingston Island (Russian name ''Smolensk'', ) is an Antarctic island in the Southern Ocean, part of the South Shetlands Archipelago, a group of Antarctic islands north of the Antarctic Peninsula. It was the first land discovered south of 60� ...
in the
South Shetland Islands
The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands with a total area of . They lie about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, and between southwest of the nearest point of the South Orkney Islands. By the Antarctic Treaty of 195 ...
,
Antarctica
Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest co ...
. The cliff rises to over 300 m at the southern extremity of an offshoot of
Serdica Peak
Serdica Peak ( bg, връх Сердика, vrah Serdika, ) rises to approximately 1,200m in Levski Ridge, Tangra Mountains, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Linked to Silistra Knoll to the west-southwest by Kotel G ...
and has ice-free eastern and southern slopes. The cliff overlooks
Boyana Glacier
Boyana Glacier ( bg, ледник Бояна, lednik Boyana, ) in Levski Ridge, Tangra Mountains on Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands in Antarctica is situated southeast of Macy Glacier and west-southwest of Srebarna Glacier. It is b ...
to the west and
Srebarna Glacier to the northeast. The cliff is named after the famous Bulgarian singer
Boris Christoff (1914-93).
Location
The cliff is located at which is 2 km southeast of
Serdica Peak
Serdica Peak ( bg, връх Сердика, vrah Serdika, ) rises to approximately 1,200m in Levski Ridge, Tangra Mountains, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Linked to Silistra Knoll to the west-southwest by Kotel G ...
, 2.7 km southwest by south of
Radichkov Peak and 2.4 km southeast by east of
Silistra Knoll.
Maps
* L.L. Ivanov et al.
Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.
* L.L. Ivanov
Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009.
References
Christoff Cliff.SCAR
Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
The Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (CGA) of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) is the authoritative international gazetteer containing all Antarctic toponyms published in national gazetteers, plus basic information about ...
.
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian
basic datain English)
External links
Christoff Cliff.Copernix satellite image
{{Bulgarian-named Antarctic place
Cliffs of Livingston Island