Great Needle Peak ( Bulgarian : Голям Иглен връх , romanized : Golyam 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.
4-607: Devnya Valley (Devnenska Dolina \'dev-nen-ska do-li-'na\) is 2.5-km long and 700 m wide valley and is situated between the north slopes of Great Needle Peak (Falsa Aguja Peak) and Helmet Peak in Levski Ridge , Tangra Mountains on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands . The valley holds a side tributary of Huron Glacier . It is named after the town of Devnya in Northeastern Bulgaria . The valley
8-819: Is centred at 62°39′11″S 60°02′40″W / 62.65306°S 60.04444°W / -62.65306; -60.04444 (Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009 from the Tangra 2004/05 topographic survey). This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission. Great Needle Peak The peak's name derives from the Spanish name form pico Falsa Aguja (False Needle Peak) that probably dates back to 1957, with ‘great’ becoming established in usage and considered more suitable than ‘false’ as this heavily glaciated, major peak could hardly be associated with
12-709: The previously existing estimate (1,690 m according to the Bulgarian topographic survey Tangra 2004/05 ), and confirmed that the summit of both the mountains and the island is indeed the 1700.2 m high Mount Friesland . The peak is located 6.7 km east of Mount Friesland , 3.32 km east by south of Levski Peak , 2.21 km south-southeast of Plana Peak , 2.54 km south of Sitalk Peak and 1.84 km south of Tutrakan Peak , 2.15 km southwest of Helmet Peak , 3.32 km northwest of M'Kean Point , 1.29 km north of Serdica Peak , and 470 m southeast of Sofia Peak (1655 m) with which it forms
16-514: The ‘true’ Needle Peak ( pico Aguja ), a sharp rocky peak of elevation just 370 m situated near Samuel Point 8 km away. The first ascent and GPS survey of Great Needle Peak was made on 8 January 2015 by the Bulgarian mountaineers Doychin Boyanov, Nikolay Petkov and Aleksander Shopov from Camp Academia locality (541 m) via Lozen Saddle (437 m) and Plana Peak (740 m). Their measured peak elevation of 1,679.5 m) updated
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