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Pirne Peak (, ) is the rocky peak rising to 802 mReference Elevation Model of Antarctica.
Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019
on the coast of Vaughan Inlet, at the northeast extremity of Rugate Ridge on
Oscar II Coast Oscar II Coast is that portion of the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Fairweather to the north, and Cape Alexander to the south. Discovered in 1893 by Captain C.A. Larsen, who named it for King Oscar II of Norway and Sweden. ...
in
Graham Land Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that 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 ...
. It surmounts Green Glacier to the northwest and Musina Glacier to the southwest. The feature is named after the settlement of
Pirne Pirne is a village in Aytos Municipality, in Burgas Province, in southeastern Bulgaria.Guide Bulgaria
Accessed May 5 ...
in Southeastern
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.


Location

Pirne Peak is located at , which is 13.7 km northeast of Mount Bistre, 13.18 km south of Sekirna Spur, 13.4 km west of
Mural Nunatak Mural Nunatak () is a conspicuous nunatak on the east side of Hektoria Glacier, 5 nautical miles (9 km) northwest of Shiver Point, in Graham Land. Surveyed by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1947 and 1955. The name, given by ...
, and 18 km northwest of Whiteside Hill.
British British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. * British national identity, the characteristics of British people and culture ...
mapping in 1978.


Maps

* British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 60. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1978.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.


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References


Pirne Peak.
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 Antarctic Gazetteer 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 ...
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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 ...
. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)


External links


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