Bratsigovo Hills
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Bratsigovo Hills is the chain of rocky hills rising to over 300 m on the southeast side of 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...

 and extending from the coast of Prince Gustav Channel
Prince Gustav Channel
The Prince Gustav Channel was named in 1903 after Crown Prince Gustav of Sweden by Otto Nordenskiöld of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition.The channel is bounded on the west by the Antarctic Peninsula and on the east by James Ross Island...

 4 km northwards 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.

The hills are named after the town of Bratsigovo
Bratsigovo
Bratsigovo is a town in Southern Bulgaria. It is located in the foothills of the Rhodope Mountains, on the banks of the Umishka River in Pazardzhik oblast, and is close to the towns of Peshtera and Krichim....

 in Southern Bulgaria.

Location

Bratsigovo Hills are centred at 63°39′10"S 58°00′00"W, which 3.77 km west of Chernopeev Peak
Chernopeev Peak
Chernopeev Peak is the rocky peak rising to 543 m on the southeast side of Cugnot Ice Piedmont on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica....

 and 6.5 km east-northeast 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,...

. 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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