Dobrich Knoll
Coordinates: 62°44′56″S 60°18′33.5″W / 62.74889°S 60.309306°W
Location of Tangra Mountains on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Dobrich Knoll
Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.
Dobrich Knoll (Dobrichka Mogila \'do-brich-ka mo-'gi-la\) rises to over 400 m in the middle of Veleka Ridge, Tangra Mountains, eastern Livingston Island in Antarctica. It overlooks Tarnovo Ice Piedmont to the east and Arkutino Beach to the west. The knoll is named after the Bulgarian city of Dobrich.[1]
Location
The knoll is 740 m south of the summit of Veleka Ridge and 740 m north of Botev Peak, and was recorded in Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009.
Maps
- L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.
- L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009.
References
- ↑ Dobrich Knoll, SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica. Retrieved 2014-02-16.
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.
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