Kondofrey Heights
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Kondofrey Heights are the heights rising to 1119 m (Skakavitsa Peak
Skakavitsa Peak
Skakavitsa Peak is the peak rising to 1119 m, the summit of Kondofrey Heights on Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula. Situated in the north part of the heights, 2.08 km northeast of Gurgulyat Peak, 3 km northwest of Mount Reece, 9.93 km south-southeast of Mount Schuyler, and 8.94 km southwest...

) on the southeast side of 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 east of Detroit Plateau
Detroit Plateau
Detroit Plateau is a major interior plateau of Graham Land, with heights between 1,500 and 1,800 m. Its northeast limit is marked by the south wall of Russell West Glacier, from which it extends some in a general southwest direction to Herbert Plateau. The plateau was observed from the air by...

, south of Victory Glacier
Victory Glacier
Victory Glacier is a gently sloping glacier, 8 nautical miles long, flowing east-southeast from the north end of Detroit Plateau on Trinity Peninsula to Prince Gustav Channel immediately north of Pitt Point. Bounded by Trakiya Heights to the north and Kondofrey Heights to the south...

 and west 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...

, Weddell Sea
Weddell Sea
The Weddell Sea is part of the Southern Ocean and contains the Weddell Gyre. Its land boundaries are defined by the bay formed from the coasts of Coats Land and the Antarctic Peninsula. The easternmost point is Cape Norvegia at Princess Martha Coast, Queen Maud Land. To the east of Cape Norvegia is...

. Linked to Detroit Plateau by Podgumer Col
Podgumer Col
Podgumer Col is the mostly ice-free col of elevation over 800 m on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica, which is linking Kondofrey Heights to the east to Detroit Plateau to the west...

. Extending 9.2 km in east-west direction and 7.5 km in north-south direction.

The heights are named after the settlement of Kondofrey in western Bulgaria
Bulgaria
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.

Location

Kondofrey Heights are located at 63°50′00"S 58°34′00"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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