Obidim Peak
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Obidim Peak is the rocky peak rising to 706 m in Erul Heights
Erul Heights
Erul Heights are the heights rising to 1092 m on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. They are bounded by Russell East Glacier to the south and Cugnot Ice Piedmont to the north, extending 8 km from Benz Pass in east-southeast direction towards Smokinya Cove, and surmounting Prince...

 on Trinity Peninsula
Trinity Peninsula
Trinity Peninsula is the extreme northern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, extending northeastward for about from a line connecting Cape Kjellman and Cape Longing. Dating back more than a century, chartmakers used various names for this portion of the Antarctic peninsula, each name having some...

 in Graham Land
Graham Land
Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...

, Antarctica. It is surmounting Cugnot Ice Piedmont
Cugnot Ice Piedmont
Cugnot Ice Piedmont is an ice piedmont in Trinity Peninsula, about 15 nautical miles long and between 3 and 6 nautical miles wide, extending from Russell East Glacier to Eyrie Bay and bounded on the landward side by Louis Philippe Plateau. Mapped from surveys by Falkland Islands...

 to the northeast.

The peak is named after the settlement of Obidim
Obidim
Obidim is a village in southwestern Bulgaria, located in the Bansko Municipality of the Blagoevgrad Province .As of 2006 it has 141 inhabitants. The village was founded in the 14th century...

 in Southwestern Bulgaria.

Location

Obidim Peak is located at 63°41′54"S 58°19′30"W, which is 2 km northwest of Panhard Nunatak
Panhard Nunatak
Panhard Nunatak is the nearest nunatak to the coast on the north side of Russell East Glacier, surmounting Smokinya Cove in Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Rene Panhard , French engineer who in 1891 was jointly responsible with E...

, 1.25 km east-southeast of Coburg Peak
Coburg Peak
Coburg Peak is the rocky peak rising to 783 m in Erul Heights on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. It is surmounting Cugnot Ice Piedmont to the northeast.The peak is named after the Bulgarian royal house of Coburg , 1887-1946....

 and 3.04 km south-southwest of Chochoveni Nunatak
Chochoveni Nunatak
Chochoveni Nunatak is the rocky hill rising to 650 m in the southwest part of Cugnot Ice Piedmont on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica....

. German-British mapping in 1996.

Map

  • Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.
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