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Stancheva Peak (, ) is an ice-covered peak that forms the west extremity of Bigla Ridge on
Foyn Coast The Foyn Coast () is that portion of the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Alexander and Cape Northrop. It was discovered in 1893 by a Norwegian expedition under Captain Carl Anton Larsen, who named it for Svend Foyn, a Norwegian ...
,
Antarctic Peninsula The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martin in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctica. ...
. It rises to 1644 mReference Elevation Model of Antarctica.
Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019
and has precipitous rocky northwest, southeast and southwest slopes. It surmounts
Sleipnir Glacier Sleipnir Glacier () is a glacier 10 nautical miles (18 km) long, flowing into the west side of Cabinet Inlet between Balder and Spur Points, on the east coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. The Vologes Ridge is in the central portion of the ...
to the north and Beaglehole Glacier to the south. The feature is named after Kameliya Stancheva, participant in the 1996/97 Bulgarian Antarctic campaign, for her support for the Bulgarian Antarctic programme.


Location

Stancheva Peak is located at , which is 4.6 km south of Vologes Ridge, 6.68 km west-southwest of Mount Mecheva and 5.05 km northwest of Chuypetlovo Knoll. British mapping in 1976.


Maps

* British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 66 64. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1976.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.


Notes


References


Stancheva 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 ...
.
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


Stancheva Peak.
Copernix satellite image Mountains of Graham Land Foyn Coast Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{FoynCoast-geo-stub