Penca Hill is a rocky hill rising to 217 m in Dospey Heights on

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in the

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. It surmounts Diomedes Lake on the north. The feature is part of the

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''ASPA 126 Byers Peninsula'', situated in one of its restricted zones.Management Plan for Antarctic Specially Protected Area No. 126 Byers Peninsula.
Measure 4 (2016), ATCM XXXIX Final Report. Santiago, 2016 The feature is descriptively named, the

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''penca'' referring to a fleshy leaf or joint of a plant.

Location

Penca Hill is located at which is 2.77 km east-southeast of Start Hill, 2.28 km east-southeast of Dulo Hill, 1.93 km southeast of Battenberg Hill, 2.15 km northwest of Varadero Hill and 4.36 km north-northwest of Chester Cone (Chilean mapping in 1971, detailed Spanish mapping in 1992, and Bulgarian mapping in 2009).

Maps

Península Byers, Isla Livingston.
Mapa topográfico a escala 1:25000. Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército, 1992. * L.L. Ivanov
Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.
Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009.

Notes

References

SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
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