Bogdan Ridge

Location of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.
Bogdan Ridge from English Strait.

Bogdan Ridge (Rid Bogdan \'rid 'bog-dan\) is a conspicuous rocky ridge of elevation 440 m forming the northeast extremity of Breznik Heights, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The ridge extends 1.3 km westwards from Santa Cruz Point and surmounts Gruev Cove to the south.

The feature is named after Bogdan Peak, the summit of Sredna Gora Mountain in Central Bulgaria.

Location

The summit of the ridge is located at 62°30′01″S 59°33′57″W / 62.50028°S 59.56583°W / -62.50028; -59.56583Coordinates: 62°30′01″S 59°33′57″W / 62.50028°S 59.56583°W / -62.50028; -59.56583 which is 630 m west of Santa Cruz Point, 920 m east-northeast of Benkovski Nunatak and 4.38 km southeast of López Nunatak (British mapping in 1968, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009).

Maps

References

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


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Saturday, November 21, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.