Location of Tangra Mountains on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Besapara Hill
Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Besapara Hill (Halm Besapara \'h&lm be-sa-'pa-ra\) is a hill of 250m projecting from Sopot Ice Piedmont in Delchev Ridge, Tangra Mountains on Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands in Antarctica. The hill was mapped in the Bulgarian topographic survey Tangra 2004/05, and is named after the ancient Thracian town of Besapara, ancestor of the present Bulgarian city of Pazardzhik.

Location

The hill is located at 62°37′10″S 59°52′02″W / 62.61944°S 59.86722°W / -62.61944; -59.86722 which is 500m north of Kaloyan Nunatak, 2 km east of Vaptsarov Peak and 1.5 km west of Mesta Peak.

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This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.

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