Chiren Heights is the ice-covered heights at the base of Velingrad Peninsula

Velingrad Peninsula

Velingrad Peninsula is the ice-covered peninsula projecting 22.5 km in northwest direction from Graham Coast on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula. Bounded by Barilari Bay to the northeast and Holtedahl Bay to the southwest, and separated from Biscoe Islands to the northwest by Grandidier...

, Graham Coast

Graham Coast

Graham Coast is the portion of the west coast of Graham Land in Antarctic Peninsula, extending 172 km between Cape Bellue to the southwest and Cape Renard to the northeast....

 on the west side of 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....

, extending 21 km in northeast-southwest direction between Barilari Bay

Barilari Bay

Barilari Bay is a bay long and wide, between Cape Garcia and Loqui Point on the west coast of Graham Land. It was discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, and named by Jean-Baptiste Charcot for Rear Admiral Atilio S. Barilari, Argentine Navy. It was re-charted by the British...

 and Holtedahl Bay

Holtedahl Bay

Holtedahl Bay is a bay, 10 nautical miles long in NW-SE direction and averaging 6 nautical miles wide, between Prospect Point and Black Head along the west coast of Graham land...

, and 16 km wide. It is bounded by Caulfield Glacier to the south, Simler Snowfield

Simler Snowfield

Simler Snowfield is a snowfield lying northeast of Holtedahl Bay, on Velingrad Peninsula, the west coast of Graham Land in Antarctica. Photographed by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. in 1956-57, and mapped from these photos by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey...

 to the west, Hoek Glacier

Hoek Glacier

Hoek Glacier is a glacier flowing into Dimitrov Cove on the northwest coast of Velingrad Peninsula on Graham Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica, southward of Llanquihue Islands. Charted by the British Graham Land Expedition under Rymill, 1934-37. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names...

 to the northwest, Bilgeri Glacier

Bilgeri Glacier

Bilgeri Glacier is a glacier flowing into Barilari Bay south of Huitfeldt Point, on Velingrad Peninsula on the west coast of Graham Land in Antarctica...

 to the north and Weir Glacier

Weir Glacier

Weir Glacier is a glacier 8 nautical miles long, the western of two glaciers flowing north into the south part of Barilari Bay, on the west coast of Graham Land. First sighted and roughly charted in 1909 by the French Antarctic Expedition under Charcot. It was surveyed in 1935-36 by the...

 to the east. Featuring Coblentz Peak

Coblentz Peak

Coblentz Peak is a peak rising at the north side of the head of Holtedahl Bay, in Chiren Heights, Velingrad Peninsula, on the west coast of Graham Land in Antarctica. It was photographed by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd in 1956–57, and mapped from these photos by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey....

 at its west extremity and Mount Zdarsky

Mount Zdarsky

Mount Zdarsky is a mountain rising at the east side of Simler Snowfield on Velingrad Peninsula, between Barilari and Holtedahl Bays on the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica...

 (1200 m) in its north-central part.

The heights are named after the settlement of Chiren

Chiren

Chiren is a village located in northwestern Bulgaria. It is a part of Vratsa Municipality, Vratsa Province.-Geography:The village is located approximately 15 kilometers to the north of town of Vratsa. Chiren is popular with places "Bojia most" and "Tigancheto" . These places are natural forms...

 in Northwestern Bulgaria.

Location

Chiren Heights are centred at 66°06′35"S 64°49′30"W. British mapping in 1971.

Maps

• British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 66 64. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1976.
• Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993-2006.