Borovan Knoll
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Borovan Knoll is the hill rising to 878 m on the west coast of Lindblad Cove
Lindblad Cove
Lindblad Cove is a cove, 5 km wide, between Almond Point and Auster Point in Charcot Bay, Trinity Peninsula. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1995 in commemoration of Lars-Eric Lindblad , pioneer in Antarctic tourism. A noted conservationist, Mr...

 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...

, 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 1.85 km east-southeast of Dragor Hill
Dragor Hill
Dragor Hill is the hill rising to 748 m east of Whitecloud Glacier on Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula. Situated 7.85 km southeast of Nikyup Point, 2.85 km south of Almond Point and 1.85 km west-northwest of Borovan Knoll....

 and 3.88 km south-southeast of Almond Point
Almond Point
Almond Point is a rocky point between Whitecloud Glacier and McNeile Glacier at the head of Charcot Bay, Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica. Charted in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey who applied the name because of the distinctive shape of the point....

, which is formed by an offshoot of the hill.

The hill is named after the settlement of Borovan
Borovan
Borovan is a village in northwestern Bulgaria, part of Vratsa Province. It is the administrative centre of Borovan municipality, which lies in the central part of Vratsa Province...

 in northwestern 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...

.

Location

Borovan Knoll is located at 63°54′39"S 59°28′49"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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