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Melnik Peak

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Mountain in Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica

Melnik Peak (Bulgarian:връх Мельник,romanized: vrah Melnik,IPA:[ˈvrɤxˈmɛɫnik]) is the 696 m summit ofMelnik Ridge in easternLivingston Island,South Shetland Islands inAntarctica. SurmountingKaliakra Glacier to the north and west, andStruma Glacier to the southeast. The peak takes its name fromMelnik Ridge.

First ascent byLyubomir Ivanov andDoychin Vasilev fromCamp Academia on 28 December 2004, as part ofTangra 2004/05 survey.^[1]^[2]

The peak is located at62°36′06.4″S60°09′11.2″W / 62.601778°S 60.153111°W /-62.601778; -60.153111, which is 4.04 km southwest ofSindel Point, 2.41 km northwest ofAtanasoff Nunatak, 1.26 km north ofAsparuh Peak, 3.03 km northeast by east ofMount Bowles, 3.5 km east by north ofHemus Peak, 4.05 km southeast by south ofCastra Martis Hill, and 7.4 km south ofMiziya Peak (Bulgarian topographic surveyTangra 2004/05, and mapping in 2005 and 2009).

L.L. Ivanov et al.Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.
L.L. Ivanov.Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009.
A. Kamburov and L. Ivanov.Bowles Ridge and Central Tangra Mountains: Livingston Island, Antarctica. Scale 1:25000 map. Sofia: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2023.ISBN 978-619-90008-6-1

^L.L. Ivanov,Livingston Island: Tangra Mountains, Komini Peak, west slope new rock route; Lyaskovets Peak, first ascent; Zograf Peak, first ascent; Vidin Heights, Melnik Peak, Melnik Ridge, first ascent,The American Alpine Journal, 2005, 312-315.
^Antarctica: Livingston Island,Climb Magazine, Issue 14, Kettering, UK, April 2006, pp. 89-91.