# MacKay Peak

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**MacKay Peak** is an ice-covered [pyramidal peak](/source/Pyramidal_peak) rising to 770 m in [Friesland Ridge](/source/Friesland_Ridge), [Tangra Mountains](/source/Tangra_Mountains), [Livingston Island](/source/Livingston_Island) in the [South Shetland Islands](/source/South_Shetland_Islands), [Antarctica](/source/Antarctica). It is linked by [Pleven Saddle](/source/Pleven_Saddle) to [Tervel Peak](/source/Tervel_Peak) to the east-northeast, and surmounts [Peshtera Glacier](/source/Peshtera_Glacier) to the north and [Charity Glacier](/source/Charity_Glacier) to the south.

The peak is named after Captain Donald MacKay, Master of the [American](/source/US) shallop *Sarah* who, while [seal hunting](/source/Seal_hunting) in the islands in 1820–21, sent home a collection of minerals and rocks to the New York Lyceum of Natural History, forerunner of the [American Museum of Natural History](/source/American_Museum_of_Natural_History).

## Location

The peak is located at [62°43′16″S 60°17′57.5″W](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?params=62_43_16_S_60_17_57.5_W) which is 5.67 km south of [Napier Peak](/source/Napier_Peak), 3.62 km southwest of [Kikish Crag](/source/Kikish_Crag), 2.76 km west-southwest of [St. Methodius Peak](/source/St._Methodius_Peak) and 2.41 km north-northeast of [Veleka Peak](/source/Veleka_Peak) (British mapping in 1968, and Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009).

## Maps

- L.L. Ivanov et al. [Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image%3ALivingston-Greenwich-map.jpg). Scale 1:100000 [topographic map](/source/Topographic_map). Sofia: [Antarctic Place-names Commission](/source/Antarctic_Place-names_Commission) of Bulgaria, 2005.
- L.L. Ivanov. [Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands](http://apcbg.org/image023.jpg). Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4
- L.L. Ivanov. [Antarctica: Livingston Island and Smith Island](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ALivingston-Island-Map-2010-15.png). Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017. ISBN 978-619-90008-3-0

## References

- [SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica](http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/scar/).

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