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Bankya Peak (Bulgarian: връх Банкя, romanized: vrah Bankya, IPA: [ˈvrɤɣ ˈbaɲcɐ]) is the peak rising to 877 m[1] in Korten Ridge at the base of Svilengrad Peninsula, east of Lanchester Bay and west of Sabine Glacier on Davis Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica.

The peak is named after the town of Bankya in western Bulgaria.

Location

Bankya Peak is located at 63°53′19″S 59°53′23″W, which is 5.28 km south-southeast of Wennersgaard Point, 6 km northeast of Milkov Point, 4.36 km north of Chanute Peak and 6.55 km west-northwest of Velichkov Knoll. German-British mapping in 1996.

Map

• Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.

Notes

References

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

External links

• Bankya Peak. Copernix satellite image

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

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