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Mursalitsa Peak (, ) is the mostly ice-covered peak on the west side of northern
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 wide. Many peaks rise over and Vinson Mass ...
in
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 in Marie Byrd Land. They are bisected by Minneso ...
,
Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean), it contains the geographic South Pole. ...
rising to 2334 mReference Elevation Model of Antarctica.
Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019 on the side ridge extending from
Mount Sharp Mount Sharp, officially Aeolis Mons (), is a mountain on Mars. It forms the central peak within Gale crater and is located around , rising high from the valley floor. Its ID in the United States Geological Survey's Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenc ...
on the main crest of the range. It is named after Mursalitsa Ridge in the
Rhodope Mountains The Rhodopes (; , ; , ''Rodopi''; ) are a mountain range in Southeastern Europe, and the largest by area in Bulgaria, with over 83% of its area in the southern part of the country and the remainder in Greece. Golyam Perelik is its highest peak ...
, Bulgaria.


Location

Mursalitsa Peak is located at , which is 5.8 km southwest of
Mount Barden Mount Barden () is a mountain, 2,910 m, standing 2.5 nautical miles (4.6 km) northwest of Mount Sharp in the north portion of the Sentinel Range. It surmounts Zhenda Glacier to the east. The mountain was named by the Advisory Committee o ...
, 7.24 km west of Mount Sharp, 11.73 km north of Brocks Peak and 24.7 km east of Helfert Nunatak. US mapping in 1961.


See also

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Mountains in Antarctica This is a list of all the ultra prominent peaks (with topographic prominence greater than 1,500 metres) in Antarctica. Some islands in the South Atlantic have also been included and can be found at the end of the list. Antarctica South At ...


Maps


Newcomer Glacier.
Scale 1:250 000 topographic map. Reston, Virginia: US Geological Survey, 1961.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly updated.


Notes


References


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SCAR A scar (or scar tissue) is an area of fibrosis, fibrous tissue that replaces normal skin after an injury. Scars result from the biological process of wound repair in the skin, as well as in other Organ (anatomy), organs, and biological tissue, t ...
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 th ...

Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer
Antarctic Place-names Commission The Antarctic Place-names Commission was established by the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute in 1994, and since 2001 has been a body affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Bulgaria), Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria. The Commis ...
(in Bulgarian)
Basic data
(in English)


External links


Mursalitsa Peak.
Copernix satellite image Ellsworth Mountains Bulgaria and the Antarctic Mountains of Ellsworth Land {{EllsworthLand-geo-stub