Korten Ridge

Location of Davis Coast.

Korten Ridge (Bulgarian: Кортенски хребет, ‘Kortenski Hrebet’ \'kor-ten-ski 'hre-bet\) is the ridge extending 18 km in south-north direction and 9 km wide, rising to 1673 m (Mount Bris) on Davis Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. It is bounded by Podvis Col linking it to Detroit Plateau to the southeast, Temple Glacier to the southwest, Lanchester Bay to the west, Wennersgaard Point and Jordanoff Bay to the north, and Sabine Glacier to the east.

The ridge is named after the settlement of Korten in Southeastern Bulgaria.

Location

Korten Ridge is centred at 63°55′40″S 59°52′50″W / 63.92778°S 59.88056°W / -63.92778; -59.88056Coordinates: 63°55′40″S 59°52′50″W / 63.92778°S 59.88056°W / -63.92778; -59.88056. German-British mapping in 1996.

Map

Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.

References

SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

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

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