Great Needle Peak

Great Needle Peak
Great Needle Peak from Bransfield Strait
Highest point
Elevation1,679.5 metres (5,510 feet)[1]
Prominenceca. 480 metres (1,575 feet)
(key col Shipka Saddle)
Coordinates62°40′11″S 60°03′15″W / 62.66972°S 60.05417°W / -62.66972; -60.05417
Geography
LocationLivingston Island, Antarctica
Parent rangeTangra Mountains
Climbing
First ascent8 January 2015 Doychin Boyanov, Nikolay Petkov and Aleksander Shopov

Great Needle Peak (Bulgarian: Голям Иглен връх, romanizedGolyam Iglen vrah, IPA: [ɡoˈʎam ˈiɡlɛn ˈvrɤx]; variant name in Spanish: pico Falsa Aguja, lit.'False Needle Peak') is the summit of the central Levski Ridge in Tangra Mountains on Livingston Island, Antarctica. Rising to 1,679.5 m, it is the third highest peak of both the mountains and the island after Mount Friesland (1700.2 m) and St. Boris Peak (1685 m). Great Needle Peak surmounts Huron Glacier and its tributary draining Devnya Valley to the north, Magura Glacier to the east, Srebarna Glacier to the south, and Macy Glacier to the southwest.

  1. ^ N. Petkov. Livingston Island, Falsa Aguja and Sofia Peak. American Alpine Journal: Climbs And Expeditions, 2016. (Complete expedition report by N. Petkov and D. Boyanov)