Yagodina Knoll
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Yagodina Knoll is the ice-covered hill rising to 530 m at the northeast extremity 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...

 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 Mott Snowfield
Mott Snowfield
Mott Snowfield is a snowfield in northeast Trinity Peninsula between Laclavere Plateau and Antarctic Sound. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Peter G. Mott, leader of Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition , 1955-57.-Map:* Scale 1:250000 topographic...

 to the southwest.

The hill is named after the settlement of Yagodina in Southern Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

.

Location

Yagodina Knoll is located at 63°17′16.5"S 57°09′06"W, which is 8.21 km south-southeast of Siffrey Point
Siffrey Point
Siffrey Point is a low rocky point projecting from the north coast of Trinity Peninsula, 6 miles west-northwest of Cape Dubouzet. The feature is a reidentification of "Cap Siffrey," named by Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville in 1838....

, 2.81 km west-southwest of Mount Bransfield
Mount Bransfield
Mount Bransfield is a prominent conical-topped, ice-covered mountain, high, rising southwest of Cape Dubouzet at the northeast tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. It was discovered by a French expedition, 1837–40, under Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville, who named it for Edward Bransfield, Master,...

, 3.85 km northwest of Koerner Rock
Koerner Rock
Koerner Rock is a small but conspicuous rock outcropping located 4 nautical miles southwest of Cape Dubouzet, Trinity Peninsula. It was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Roy M...

 and 22.4 km east-northeast of Fidase Peak
Fidase Peak
Fidase Peak is a distinctive peak 9 nautical miles east of Mount Jacquinot, rising to 915 m at the west end of Mott Snowfield, Trinity Peninsula. Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition represents the initial letters of the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey...

. 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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