Crutch Peaks is a dark, rocky ridge extending 900 m in north-south direction and rising to 275 m in the north extremity of Dryanovo Heights

Dryanovo Heights

Dryanovo Heights The ice-covered heights rising to 520 m in the northwest part of Greenwich Island. Extending 13 km in northwest-southeast direction, and 7 km in northeast-southwest direction...

, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands

South Shetland Islands

The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands, lying about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, with a total area of . By the Antarctic Treaty of 1959, the Islands' sovereignty is neither recognized nor disputed by the signatories and they are free for use by any signatory for...

, Antarctica. The peak surmounts Yakoruda Glacier

Yakoruda Glacier

Yakoruda Glacier is a glacier on the west slopes of Dryanovo Heights, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica extending 3.5 km in north-south direction and 2.5 km in east-west direction. Bounded by Greaves Peak, Hrabar Nunatak and Crutch Peak to the north, Lloyd Hill...

 to the south-southwest, Teteven Glacier

Teteven Glacier

Teteven Glacier is a glacier on Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica draining the north slopes of Dryanovo Heights into the Drake Passage in Haskovo Cove and Skaptopara Cove between Miletich Point and the ice-free area at Agüedo Point...

 to the south-southeast, and Miletich Point

Miletich Point

Miletich Point is the rocky point forming the west side of the entrance to Haskovo Cove in Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands in Antarctica...

 and Kabile Island

Kabile Island

Kabile Island is an Antarctic island extending in south-north direction and wide, situated off the north coast of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica...

 to the north.

The feature was charted by the Discovery Investigations

Discovery Investigations

The Discovery Investigations were a series of scientific cruises and shore-based investigations into the biology of whales in the Southern Ocean. They were funded by the British Colonial Office and organised by the Discovery Committee in London, which was formed in 1918...

 and named descriptively.

Location

The peaks are centred at 62°27′12.7"S 59°56′15.1"W which is 840 m south of Miletich Point, 2.25 km west-southwest of Aprilov Point

Aprilov Point

Aprilov Point is a point on the north coast of Greenwich Island, Antarctica situated 6.9 km east of Duff Point, 2.1 km east-southeast of Kabile Island, 2.2 km east-northeast of Crutch Peaks, 1.8 km south of Ongley Island, 5.5 km west of Agüedo Point, and 2.3 km...

, 3.55 northwest of Sevtopolis Peak

Sevtopolis Peak

Sevtopolis Peak is an ice-covered peak of elevation 300 m in Dryanovo Heights, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica...

, 2.82 km north of Panagyurishte Nunatak

Panagyurishte Nunatak

Panagyurishte Nunatak is a rocky peak of elevation 150 m projecting from Yakoruda Glacier, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica...

, 2.67 km east of Greaves Peak

Greaves Peak

Crutch Peaks is a conspicuous sharp, dark, double-pointed rocky peak rising to 240 m in the northwest of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica...

 and 1.19 km east of Hrabar Nunatak

Hrabar Nunatak

Hrabar Nunatak is a 160m rocky peak on the north coast of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, and overlooking Yakoruda Glacier to the south...

(British mapping in 1935 and 1968, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009).

Maps

• L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.
• L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4