St. Naum Peak

Location of Tangra Mountains on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.
St. Naum Peak from Bransfield Strait, with Starosel Gate, Balchik Ridge and Silistra Knoll to the right and Vazov Rock in the foreground.
Topographic map of Livingston Island and Smith Island

St. Naum Peak (Bulgarian: връх Св. Наум, romanizedvrah Sv. Naum, IPA: [ˈvrɤx svɛˈti nɐˈum]) is a rocky peak of elevation 560 m in the east extremity of Peshev Ridge, Tangra Mountains, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Separated from Balchik Ridge and Silistra Knoll to the east by Starosel Gate, and surmounting Macy Glacier to the north and Boyana Glacier to the south.

The peak is named after the Bulgarian scholar St. Naum of Preslav and Ohrid (—910 AD), brother of St. Kliment Ohridski and student of St. Cyril and St. Methodius who worked under the auspices of Czar Boris I of Bulgaria both in Veliki Preslav and Devol.


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