Vidin Heights

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Vidin Heights (Vidinski Vazvisheniya \'vi-din-ski v&z-vi-'she-ni-ya\) are ice-covered heights rising to 604 m on Varna Peninsula, eastern Livingston Island, Antarctica. The feature is approximately 8 km long, trending west-southwest to east-northeast towards Inott Point. The summit, Miziya Peak, is located 4.2 km north-northeast of Leslie Hill and 9.25 km north by east of Mount Bowles. The heights feature Samuel Peak 1.8 km east-southeast of Miziya Peak, and Sharp Peak at their east-northeast extremity.

Vidin is the name of a town in northwestern Bulgaria.

[edit] Location

The summit is located at 62°32′08″S, 60°09′52″W (UK Directorate of Overseas Surveys mapping in 1968, rough Argentine mapping in 1980, and Bulgarian mapping in 2005 from the Tangra 2004/05 topographic survey).

[edit] See also

• Arbanasi Nunatak

[edit] External links

• SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
• Reference Map

This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.