Samuel Peak is the 540 m peak in central Vidin Heights,

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

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. Surmounting Panega Glacier to the east and Kaliakra Glacier to the south. The peak is named after the American sealing ship ''Samuel'' under Captain Robert Inott, which visited the islands in 1820–21.

Location

Samuel Peak is located at , which is 4.78 km northeast of

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, 1.9 km east-southeast of

Miziya Peak Miziya Peak ( bg, връх Мизия, vrah Miziya, ) is the 604 m summit of Vidin Heights on Varna Peninsula, eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The peak overlooks Kaliakra Glacier to the south, and Saedineni ...

, 5.7 km west of

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and 6.76 km north by east of Melnik Peak. (British mapping in 1968, Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009).

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.

External links

Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
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