Fruzhin Peak is the peak rising to 1420 m in the south part of Petvar Heights

Petvar Heights

Petvar Heights are the heights rising to 2400 m in southeast Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica. The feature occupies an oval shaped area with a diameter of 21 km, separated from the rest of Sentinel Range by Wessbecher Glacier to the southwest, Kasilag Pass to the west, and...

, southeast Sentinel Range

Sentinel Range

The Sentinel Range is a major mountain range situated northward of Minnesota Glacier and forming the northern half of the Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica. The range trends NNW-SSE for about and is 24 to 48 km wide...

 in Ellsworth Mountains

Ellsworth Mountains

The Ellsworth Mountains are the highest mountain ranges in Antarctica, forming a long and wide chain of mountains in a north to south configuration on the western margin of the Ronne Ice Shelf. They are bisected by Minnesota Glacier to form the northern Sentinel Range and the southern Heritage...

, Antarctica. It overlooks Hudman Glacier

Hudman Glacier

Hudman Glacier is a glacier between Marze Peak and Miller Peak at the south end of Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains, flowing south-southeast to Minnesota Glacier. Mapped by United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1957-59. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic...

 to the west and Carey Glacier

Carey Glacier

Carey Glacier is a glacier on the east side of Miller Peak in the south end of the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains, flowing southeast to Minnesota Glacier. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and from U.S. Navy air photos, 1957–59, and named by the Advisory...

 to the east.

The peak is named after the Bulgarian

Second Bulgarian Empire

The Second Bulgarian Empire was a medieval Bulgarian state which existed between 1185 and 1396 . A successor of the First Bulgarian Empire, it reached the peak of its power under Kaloyan and Ivan Asen II before gradually being conquered by the Ottomans in the late 14th-early 15th century...

 prince and military commander Fruzhin

Fruzhin

Fruzhin was a 15th-century Bulgarian noble who fought actively against the Ottoman conquest of the Second Bulgarian Empire. A son of one of the last Bulgarian tsars, Ivan Shishman of the Tarnovo Tsardom, Fruzhin co-organized the so-called Uprising of Konstantin and Fruzhin along with Constantine...

 (14-15th century).

Location

Fruzhin Peak is located at 78°50′27"S 84°16′40"W, which is 8.02 km east by south of Marze Peak

Marze Peak

Marze Peak is a rock peak with twin summits near the south end of the ridge between Wessbecher and Hudman Glaciers, in Petvar Heights at the south end of Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica. Mapped by United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1957-59....

, 6.04 km south-southeast of Miller Peak

Miller Peak (Sentinel Range)

Miller Peak is a peak with twin summits on the central part of the ridge between Hudman and Carey Glaciers, in Petvar Heights at the south end of Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. First mapped by United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1957-59. Named...

, 5.83 km west-southwest of Malkoch Peak

Malkoch Peak

Malkoch Peak is the peak rising to 1300 m in the southeast part of Petvar Heights, southeast Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica, and overlooking Carey Glacier to the west and Rutford Ice Stream to the east....

 and 9.5 km northwest of Mountainview Ridge

Mountainview Ridge

Mountainview Ridge is a gentle ice-covered ridge which forms the southeast extremity of the Sentinel Range in the Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. It was so named by the University of Minnesota Geological Party in 1963-64, because an excellent view of the high peaks of the Sentinel Range was...

. US mapping in 1961, updated in 1988.

Maps

• Vinson Massif. Scale 1:250 000 topographic map. Reston, Virginia: US Geological Survey, 1988.