Konush Hill
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Konush Hill is the ice-covered hill rising to 550 m in the north foothills of Louis-Philippe Plateau 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. It is surmounting Sestrimo Glacier
Sestrimo Glacier
Sestrimo Glacier is the 11 km long and 4 km wide glacier on the northwest side of Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula. Situated southwest of Ogoya Glacier, west-northwest of Broad Valley and north of Cugnot Ice Piedmont...

 to the east and Lafond Bay
Lafond Bay
Lafond Bay is a bay, 3 miles wide, lying south of Cockerell Peninsula, Trinity Peninsula. It was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey , and was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Lieutenant Pierre Lafond, a French naval officer on the Astrolabe...

 to the north.

The hill is named after the settlements of Konush, Haskovo Province
Konush, Haskovo Province
Konush, Haskovo Province is a village in the municipality of Haskovo, in Haskovo Province, in southern Bulgaria.Konush Hill on Trinity Peninsula in Antarctica is named after the village....

 in Southern Bulgaria.

Location

Konush Hill is located at 63°29′28"S 58°11′47"W, which is 2.03 km north of Mount D’Urville, 3.52 km northeast of Tintyava Peak
Tintyava Peak
Tintyava Peak is the ice-covered peak rising to 950 m in the north foothills of Louis-Philippe Plateau on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica...

, 5.64 km east-northeast of Ogled Peak
Ogled Peak
Ogled Peak is the ice-covered peak rising to over 700 m in the north foothills of Louis-Philippe Plateau on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica...

and 5.51 km west by south of Argentino (Guerrero) Hill. 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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