Baliza Hill
Baliza Hill is the conspicuous rocky hill rising to 40 m in the southeast extremity of Half Moon Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and surmounting Menguante Cove to the north-northwest, McFarlane Strait to the northeast and east, and Mugla Passage to the south. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers operating from nearby Yankee Harbour.
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The feature's name is descriptive (Spanish for ‘beacon’) and appeared in a 2000 publication following Argentine ornithological research on the island, and in the 2005 and 2009 Bulgarian maps of Livingston Island.
Location
The hill located at 62°35′46″S 59°53′53.4″W which is 1.2 km east of La Morenita hill, 1.54 km south-southeast of Xenia Hill, 10.11 km west-southwest of Ephraim Bluff, Greenwich Island, 4.96 km west-northwest of Renier Point, Livingston Island, 3.51 km north-northwest of Kaloyan Nunatak, Livingston Island and 1.5 km from the north coast of Burgas Peninsula, Livingston Island (Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009).
Maps
- 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. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4
References
- Cesar Garcia Esponda, Nestor Coria & Diego Montalti. Breeding birds at Half Moon Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, 1995/96. Marine Ornithology, 2000, 28, pp. 59–62.