Bendida Peak
Bendida Peak (Bulgarian: връх Бендида, ‘Vrah Bendida’ \'vr&h ben-'di-da\) is the ice-covered peak rising to 1200 m in the north foothills of Detroit Plateau on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. It is surmounting a tributary glacier to the west that is flowing northwestwards into Pettus Glacier.
The peak is named after the Thracian goddess Bendida.
Location
Bendida Peak is located at 63°48′17″S 58°53′36″W / 63.80472°S 58.89333°WCoordinates: 63°48′17″S 58°53′36″W / 63.80472°S 58.89333°W, which is 2.11 km north-northwest of Golesh Bluff, 12.22 km east of Poynter Hill, 4.27 km south by east of Aureole Hills, 12.74 km southwest of Mount Schuyler, and 13.57 km west by north of Gurgulyat Peak in Kondofrey Heights. German-British mapping in 1996.
Map
- Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.
References
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.