Arkovna Ridge
| Arkovna Ridge | ||
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| Highest peak | Ishirkov Crag ( 1300 m ) | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| part of | Aristotle Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 65 ° 24 ′ S , 62 ° 27 ′ W | |
Arkovna Ridge (English; Bulgarian хребет Арковна Chrebet Arkowna ) is a narrow, rocky, 45 km long, 5.7 km wide and Ishirkov Crag 1300 m high ridge in the Aristotle Mountains in the Oskar-II.-coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It extends from the foothills of the Madrid Dome in a south-westerly direction to Delusion Point . The Crane Glacier is northwest and north, the Spillane Fjord northeast and Sexaginta Prista Bay , the Mapple Glacier and the head end of the Melville Glacier south of it.
British scientists mapped it in 1976. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2013 after the town of Arkovna in northeastern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Arkovna Ridge in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)