Velichkov Knoll is the peak rising to 970 m east of Sabine Glacier

Sabine Glacier

Sabine Glacier is a 13.5 km long glacier on the north side of Detroit Plateau, flowing northwards along the east slopes of Korten Ridge, and terminating at the sea in Jordanoff Bay on Davis Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. Captain Henry Foster gave the name "Cape Sabine" in 1829 to a feature...

 and west of Andrew Glacier

Andrew Glacier

Andrew Glacier is a glacier long, flowing northeast into Charcot Bay immediately west of Webster Peaks on Davis Coast, northern Graham Land. It was charted in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey who named the feature for Dr. J.D. Andrew, medical officer at the FIDS Hope Bay station...

 on Davis Coast

Davis Coast

Davis Coast is that portion of the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Kjellman and Cape Sterneck. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Captain John Davis, the American sealer who claimed to have made the first recorded landing on the continent of...

 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...

 on the Antarctic Peninsula

Antarctic Peninsula

The Antarctic Peninsula is the northernmost part of the mainland of Antarctica. It extends from a line between Cape Adams and a point on the mainland south of Eklund Islands....

. Situated 6.55 km east-southeast of Bankya Peak

Bankya Peak

Bankya Peak is the peak rising to 840 m in Korten Ridge 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:...

, 5.25 km northeast of Sredorek Peak

Sredorek Peak

Sredorek Peak is the peak rising to 1224 m in Korten Ridge east of Kasabova Glacier and west of Sabine Glacier on Davis Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica.The peak is named after the settlements of Sredorek in eastern and western Bulgaria.-Location:...

 and 6.3 km southwest of Nikyup Point

Nikyup Point

Nikyup Point is the point next east of Andrew Glacier terminus on Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula. Situated 12.65 km south-southeast of Radibosh Point, 6.3 km northeast of Velichkov Knoll, 6.76 km west of Almond Point and 19.2 km southwest of Cape Kjellman...

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The peak is named after the Bulgaria

Bulgaria

Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

n pioneer of aviation Stoyan Velichkov (b. 1871) who constructed the first air-dropped bomb ‘Velichka’ used in the First Balkan War

First Balkan War

The First Balkan War, which lasted from October 1912 to May 1913, pitted the Balkan League against the Ottoman Empire. The combined armies of the Balkan states overcame the numerically inferior and strategically disadvantaged Ottoman armies and achieved rapid success...

in 1912.

Location

Velichkov Knoll is located at 63°53′41"S 59°45′27"W. German-British mapping in 1996.

Map

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