Smin Peak
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Smin Peak is the partly ice-free peak rising to 850 m in the southeast foothills of Louis-Philippe Plateau 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 east and south.

The peak is named after the settlement of Smin
Smin
Smin is a village in Shabla Municipality, Dobrich Province, northeastern Bulgaria.Smin Peak on Trinity Peninsula in Antarctica is named after the village.-References:...

 in Northeastern Bulgaria.

Location

Smin Peak is located at 63°38′17"S 58°18′53"W, which is 2.69 km south by west of Hochstetter Peak
Hochstetter Peak
Hochstetter Peak is the partly ice-free bluff rising to over 1000 m in the southeast foothills of Louis-Philippe Plateau on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica...

, 10.06 km west-northwest of Levassor Nunatak
Levassor Nunatak
Levassor Nunatak is a conspicuous horseshoe-shaped nunatak 1 nautical mile inland in the middle of Cugnot Ice Piedmont, Trinity Peninsula. Mapped from surveys by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey . Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Emile Levassor , French engineer,...

, 3.87 km north 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....

 and 6.61 km northeast of Drenta Bluff
Drenta Bluff
Drenta Bluff is the ice-covered bluff of elevation 1076 m forming the south extremity of Louis-Philippe Plateau 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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