Lardigo Peak
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Lardigo Peak is the ice-covered peak rising to 1158 m in Snegotin Ridge
Snegotin Ridge
Snegotin Ridge is the ice-covered ridge rising to over 1200 m on the northwest side of Louis-Philippe Plateau on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. It is overlooking Bransfield Strait to the north, and Prelez Gap and the head of Malorad Glacier to the west-soothwest...

 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.

The peak is named after Lardigo Point on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast
Bulgarian Black Sea Coast
The Bulgarian Black Sea Coast covers the entire eastern bound of Bulgaria stretching from the Romanian Black Sea resorts in the north to European Turkey in the south, along 378 km of coastline. White and golden sandy beaches occupy approximately 130 km of the 378 km long coast...

.

Location

Lardigo Peak is located at 63°33′42"S 58°28′54"W, which is 10.06 km northeast of Mount Ignatiev
Mount Ignatiev
Mount Ignatiev is a peak rising to 1220 m in the Srednogorie Heights on Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula. It is situated 3.3 km south-southeast of Corner Peak, 8.96 km east-southeast of Hanson Hill, 12.1 km north of Sirius Knoll and 7.17 km southwest of Crown Peak...

, 4.2 km east of Crown Peak
Crown Peak
Crown Peak is an ice-covered peak topped by a conspicuous crown-shaped ice formation. It forms the highest summit and the south end of Marescot Ridge and lies 10 nautical miles east of Cape Roquemaurel on the northwest side of Trinity Peninsula...

, 9.63 km southeast of Marescot Point
Marescot Point
Marescot Point is a small but distinctive low rocky point projecting north from Trinity Peninsula, 2.5 nautical miles east of Thanaron Point...

, 13.17 km southwest 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...

 and 10.62 km northwest of Hochstetter Peak
Hochstetter Peak
Hochstetter Peak is the partly ice-free bluff rising to over 1000 m in the southeast foothills of Louis-Philippe Plateau on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica...

. 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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