Basarbovo Ridge

Location of Brabant Island in the Antarctic Peninsula region.

Basarbovo Ridge (Bulgarian: Басарбовски рид, ‘Basarbovski Rid’ \ba-'sar-bov-ski 'rid\) is the ice-covered ridge rising to 1400 m on the east side of Stribog Mountains on Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. It extends 10.4 km from Taran Plateau to the northwest to Bov Point to the southeast. It has steep and partly ice-free southwest slopes, and surmounts Malpighi Glacier to the southwest and Svetovrachene Glacier to the northeast.

The ridge is named after the settlement of Basarbovo in Northeastern Bulgaria.

Location

Basarbovo Ridge is centred at 64°15′55″S 62°13′20″W / 64.26528°S 62.22222°W / -64.26528; -62.22222Coordinates: 64°15′55″S 62°13′20″W / 64.26528°S 62.22222°W / -64.26528; -62.22222. British mapping in 1980 and 2008.

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Brabant Island seen from northeast, with Anvers Island (on the right) and Antarctic Peninsula in the background; Stribog Mountains occupy most of the central and the right, near 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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