Vishegrad Knoll
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Vishegrad Knoll is the hill rising to 550 m at the northeast tip of 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...

, 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 2.21 km south-southwest of Cape Dubouzet
Cape Dubouzet
Cape Dubouzet is a cape which marks the northeast extremity of Antarctic Peninsula. Charted in 1838 by a French expedition under Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville, who named it for Lieutenant Joseph Dubouzet of the expedition ship Zelee....

, 1.87 km southeast of Obzor Hill
Obzor Hill
Obzor Hill is the hill rising to 490 m at the northeast tip of Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula. Situated 2.46 km west-southwest of Cape Dubouzet, 1.18 km north of Mount Bransfield and 1.87 km northwest of Vishegrad Knoll. Surmounting Mott Snowfield to the west.The hill is named after the...

 and 1.83 km east of Mount Bransfield
Mount Bransfield
Mount Bransfield is a prominent conical-topped, ice-covered mountain, high, rising southwest of Cape Dubouzet at the northeast tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. It was discovered by a French expedition, 1837–40, under Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville, who named it for Edward Bransfield, Master,...

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The hill is named after the settlement of Vishegrad
Vishegrad, Bulgaria
Vishegrad is a village in the southern Bulgaria. It is located in the municipality of Kardzhali in the Kardzhali Province. Its population as of 2005 was 469.Vishegrad Knoll on Graham Land in Antarctica is named after Vishegrad....

 in southern 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...

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Location

Vishegrad Knoll is located at 63°16′33"S 57°03′51"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.
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