Balchik Ridge
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 View from the Bransfield Strait to the Balchik Ridge (foreground: Bojana Glacier ) |
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| location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| part of | Tangra Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 42 ′ S , 60 ° 6 ′ W | |
 Map of the Tangra Mountains with the Balchik Ridge |
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Balchik Ridge (English; Bulgarian Балчишки рид Baltschischki rid ) is a 1.3 km long and about 550 m high mountain ridge with north-northwest-south-southeast orientation on Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . In the Tangra Mountains it rises 0.9 km south of Silistra Knoll , 1.6 km east of the main summit of Peshev Ridge and 2.45 km west-northwest of Aytos Point . The Boyana Glacier is southwest, south and east of it.
The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2004 after the city of Balchik in northeastern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Balchik Ridge in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)