Musala, Bulgaria

Alternate Name(s)	Мусала
Latitude/Longitude (WGS84)	42° 10' 47'' N, 23° 35' 7'' E 42.179705, 23.585253 (Dec Deg) 713508 E 4672964 N, Zone 34 (UTM)
Country	Bulgaria (Highest Point)
Links Search Engines - search the web for "Musala":      Wikipedia Search      Microsoft Bing Search      Google Search      Yahoo Search Other Web Sites      Musala at SummitPost.org      Weather for Musala at Mountain-Forecast.com Lists that contain Musala:      World Country High Points (Rank #75)      Europe Range3 High Points (Rank #12)      Europe Country High Points (Rank #11)      Core Europe Country High Points (Rank #8)      Core Europe Peaks with 1500 meters of Prominence (Rank #7)      Europe High Points - Inclusive Grab Bag (Rank #14)      Europe High Points with Iberian Substitution (Rank #8)      1500-meter Prominence Peak with Ascents (Rank #73)      Core Europe 50 Most Prominent Peaks (Rank #7)      Europe UN Member High Points (Rank #12)      Europe Country Most Prominent Peaks (Rank #5)      UN Member State High Points (Rank #71)      World Peaks with 300 km of Isolation (Rank #117)      Europe Peaks with 200 km of Isolation (Rank #8)      Most Isolated Peak of Europe Countries (Rank #7)      Ultras of Europe (Rank #8)      Ultras of Core Europe (Rank #7)      Ultras of Eastern Europe and the Balkans (Rank #1) Selected Guidebook(s) for this Peak:        Europe's High Points (McKeating, Crolla) Selected Trip Reports from this site:      2006-09-06 by Scott Cockrell      2008-07-22 by Rob Woodall      2009-07-03 by Damo Buch      2009-08-06 by Matthias Fieles      2010-07 by Tom Milliard      2010-09-27 by Andrej Gerber      2011-06-13 by Andrew Rankine      2012-09-13 by Lyngve Skrede      2014-05-13 by Lee Humphries      2014-08-24 by Donnie Puckle      2014-10-21 by Eric Gilbertson      2015-07-24 by Andrew Rankine (GPS Track)      2017-08-11 by Norbert Schaefer      2017-08-11 by Julian Westcott      2018-06-10 by Robert Garneau      2018-06-13 by Brian Friedrich (GPS Track) View ascents of peak by registered Peakbagger.com members (91 total) Nearby Peak Searches:      Radius Search - Nearest Peaks to Musala      Elevation Ladder from Musala      Prominence Ladder from Musala

The meteorological station on the summit of Musala, the highest peak in Bulgaria and the Balkans (2011-06-13). Photo by Andrew Rankine. Click here for larger-size photo.
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Prominence	Key Col Page  (Detailed prominence information)   Clean Prominence: 2473 m/8113 ft   Optimistic Prominence: 2473 m/8113 ft   Key Col: 452 m/1483 ft
Isolation	Isolation Page  (Detailed isolation information)    Distance: 810.05 km/503.34 mi    Isolation Limit Point: 36.5467, 29.5675 Nearest Higher Neighbor in the PBC database:     Uyluk Tepe  (SE)
Ranges	Continent: Europe Range2: Balkan Peninsula (Highest Point) Range3: Macedonia-Thrace (Highest Point)
Drainage Basins	Mediterranean - Europe Mediterranean Sea Atlantic Ocean
Data Source	Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) data
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Other Photos

Balkans highest peak is bagged (2013-07-21). Photo by Louise Ekroth. Click here for larger-size photo.

Summit of Musala 2925m (2014-05-13). Photo by Lee Humphries. Click here for larger-size photo.

Musala summit observatory in January (2016-01-17). Photo by Lev Babiev. Click here for larger-size photo.

In the pic on the left the Ledenoto Ezero Mt.Hut 2720m and further right the summit. HP # 29. (2014-09-16) Photo by Iwan Auderset. Click here for larger-size photo.

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