page_title: St. Boris Peak
section_title: Notes
hierarchical_section_title: St. Boris Peak / Notes
caption_attribution_description: English: North view of Tangra Mountains in Antarctica, fragment of an illustration to George Powell’s 1822 chart of the South Shetland Islands and South Orkney Islands; left to right are depicted Great Needle Peak, Levski Peak, Lyaskovets Peak, Mount Friesland, St. Boris Peak and Simeon Peak, with Desolation Island in the foreground
context_page_description: St. Boris Peak is an ice-covered mountain rising to 1,698 m in Friesland Ridge, Tangra Mountains on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is the second highest peak of both the mountains and the island after Mount Friesland. The two are connected by a short saddle dominated by ‘The Synagogue’, a sharp-peaked rock-cored ice formation abutting upon St. Boris Peak. The peak is also connected to Simeon Peak by Paril Saddle, and surmounts Huntress Glacier to the northwest and west, and Macy Glacier to the southeast. The peak's central summit is rising to 1,685 m, while its highest point ‘The Synagogue’ rises to 1,699 m. The local ice relief is subject to change; according to a Bulgarian GPS survey by D. Boyanov and N. Petkov the elevation of Mt. Friesland was 1,693 m in December 2016, making St. Boris Peak the summit of both Tangra Mountains and the island in that season. According to the American high accuracy Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica, Mount Friesland is 8 m higher than the central summit of St. Boris Peak and 14 m higher than ‘The Synagogue’.
  The peak was first ascended and GPS surveyed by the Bulgarians D. Boyanov and N.
context_section_description: N. Petkov. Bulgarian Antarctic Expedition: Summits of Tangra Mountain. 19 January 2017. (in Bulgarian)
  D. Boyanov. NSA third time in Antarctica. National Sports Academy, 2017. (in Bulgarian)
  D. Boyanov. This Saturday and this Sunday. BTV, 28 January 2017. (in Bulgarian)
  D. Boyanov and N. Petkov. The Peaks of Tangra Mountains: Project Report Part Two 2016/17. Sofia, February 2017 (in Bulgarian)
  I.M. Howat, C. Porter, B.E. Smith, M.-J. Noh and P. Morin. The Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica. The Cryosphere 13, 2019. pp. 665–674 (Antarctic REMA Exlorer)
  Roland White. Atticus. The Sunday Times. May 4, 2008.
  Maev Kennedy. St Boris's big day. The Guardian. May 3, 2008.
caption: North view of Tangra Mountains depicting (left to right) Great Needle Peak, Levski Peak, Lyaskovets Peak, Mount Friesland, St. Boris Peak and Simeon Peak, with Desolation Island in the foreground; fragment of an illustration to George Powell's 1822 chart of the South Shetland and South Orkney Islands
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