Antonov Peak (, ) is the peak rising to 1316 m in the northwest part of Trakiya Heights on Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula. Situated 4.45 km east of Mount Schuyler, 4.25 km southeast of Sirius Knoll, 4.9 km west by north of Mount Daimler, and 8.23 km north of Skakavitsa Peak in Kondofrey Heights. Surmounting Russell West Glacier to the north and Victory Glacier to the south.

The peak is named after the Bulgarian automobile constructor Rumen Antonov (b. 1944) who invented an innovative automatic gearbox.

Antonov Peak

Location

Antonov Peak is located at . German-British mapping in 1996.

Antonov Peak

Maps

Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996. Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.

Antonov Peak

Notes

References

Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English) Antonov Peak. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer

External links

Antonov Peak. Copernix satellite image

Mountains of Trinity Peninsula

Bulgaria and the Antarctic