Avroleva Heights

Location of Brabant Island in the Antarctic Peninsula region.

Avroleva Heights (Bulgarian: възвишения Авролева, ‘Vazvisheniya Avroleva’ \v&-zvi-'she-ni-ya a-vro-'le-va\) are the mostly ice-covered heights rising to 1100 m on the east coast of Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. They extend 7.3 km in north-south direction from Hill Bay to Svetovrachene Glacier, and 7.3 km in east-west direction from Mitchell Point to Doriones Saddle, which saddle connects the heights to Taran Plateau in Stribog Mountains. The heights have steep and partly ice-free north and east slopes.

Avroleva is the medieval name of a mountain in Southeastern Bulgaria.

Location

Avroleva Heights are centred at 64°13′10″S 62°08′50″W / 64.21944°S 62.14722°W / -64.21944; -62.14722Coordinates: 64°13′10″S 62°08′50″W / 64.21944°S 62.14722°W / -64.21944; -62.14722. British mapping in 1980 and 2008.

Maps

Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.
British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 62. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1980.
Brabant Island to Argentine Islands. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. British Antarctic Survey, 2008.

References

Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
Avroleva Heights. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

Brabant Island from northeast, with Anvers Island (on the right) and Antarctic Peninsula in the background; Avroleva Heights are seen on the near side of the left part of the island.

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

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