Avroleva Heights

Location of Brabant Island in the Antarctic Peninsula region.

Avroleva Heights (Bulgarian: Възвишения Авролева, romanized: Vazvisheniya Avroleva) are the mostly ice-covered heights rising to 1137 m (Opizo Peak)[1] on the east coast of Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. They extend 7.3 km in north-south direction from Hill Bay to Svetovrachene Glacier, and 7.3 km in east-west direction from Mitchell Point to Doriones Saddle, which saddle connects the heights to Taran Plateau in Stribog Mountains. The heights have steep and partly ice-free north and east slopes.

Avroleva is the medieval name of a mountain in Southeastern Bulgaria.

Location

Avroleva Heights are centred at 64°13′10″S 62°08′50″W. British mapping in 1980 and 2008.

Maps

• Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
• British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 62. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1980.
• Brabant Island to Argentine Islands. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. British Antarctic Survey, 2008.

Notes

1. Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica. Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019

References

• Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
• Avroleva Heights. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

External links

• Avroleva Heights. Copernix satellite image

Brabant Island from northeast, with Anvers Island (on the right) and Antarctic Peninsula in the background; Avroleva Heights are seen on the near side of the left part of the island.

This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.