Ritli Hill

Location of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.

Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Ritli Hill (Bulgarian: хълм Ритли, ‘Halm Ritli’ \'h&lm 'rit-li\) is a rocky hill rising to 45 m on the south coast of western Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers.

The hill is named after the rock formation of Ritlite in western Bulgaria.

Location

Ritli Hill is located at 62°40′16″S 60°55′06″W / 62.67111°S 60.91833°W / -62.67111; -60.91833Coordinates: 62°40′16″S 60°55′06″W / 62.67111°S 60.91833°W / -62.67111; -60.91833, which is 700 m east of Rish Point and 600 m southwest of Clark Nunatak (Spanish mapping in 1993).

Maps

Península Byers, Isla Livingston. Mapa topográfico a escala 1:25000. Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército, 1992.
L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4

References

Ritli Hill. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

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

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