Samuel Peak is the 540 m peak in central Vidin Heights

Vidin Heights

Vidin Heights are predominantly ice-covered heights rising to 604 m on Varna Peninsula, eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The feature is approximately 8 km long from the north end of Leslie Gap east-northeastwards to Inott Point and 9.6 km...

, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands

South Shetland Islands

The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands, lying about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, with a total area of . By the Antarctic Treaty of 1959, the Islands' sovereignty is neither recognized nor disputed by the signatories and they are free for use by any signatory for...

, Antarctica. Surmounting Panega Glacier

Panega Glacier

Panega Glacier is located on Varna Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and drains the southeast slopes of Vidin Heights into Moon Bay between Helis Nunatak and Perperek Knoll. The glacier extends 3.7 km in the southeast-northwest direction, and 3 km in...

 to the east and Kaliakra Glacier

Kaliakra Glacier

Kaliakra Glacier is a glacier in northeastern Livingston Island, Antarctica extending 7 km in east-west direction and 8 km in north-south direction...

 to the south.

The peak is named after the American sealing

Seal hunting

Seal hunting, or sealing, is the personal or commercial hunting of seals. The hunt is currently practiced in five countries: Canada, where most of the world's seal hunting takes place, Namibia, the Danish region of Greenland, Norway and Russia...

 ship Samuel under Captain Robert Inott, which visited the islands in 1820-21.

Location

Samuel Peak is located at 62°32′30"S 60°07′51"W, which is 4.78 km northeast of Leslie Hill

Leslie Hill, Livingston Island

Leslie Hill is a hill lying northward of Bowles Ridge and south of Vidin Heights in the eastern part of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica...

, 1.9 km east-southeast of Miziya Peak

Miziya Peak

Miziya Peak is the 604 m summit of Vidin Heights on Varna Peninsula, eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica...

, 5.7 km west of Edinburgh Hill

Edinburgh Hill

Edinburgh Hill is a narrow point projecting 650 m from the east coast of Varna Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica into McFarlane Strait and ending up in a conspicuous rocky hill of elevation 180 m. The point forms the northwest side of the entrance to Moon Bay...

 and 6.76 km north by east of Melnik Peak

Melnik Peak

Melnik Peak is the 696 m summit of Melnik Ridge in eastern Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands in Antarctica. Surmounting Kaliakra Glacier to the north and west, and Struma Glacier to the southeast...

. (British mapping in 1968, Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009).

Maps

• L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.
• L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4