Bigla Ridge
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 66 ° 32 ′ S , 63 ° 57 ′ W | |
Bigla Ridge (English; Bulgarian хребет Бигла Chrebet Bigla ) is a rocky, partially unvereister, south-north-west aligned 19 km long, 8.8 km wide and up to 850 m high ridge on the Foyn Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises southeast of Sleipnir Glacier and northeast of Beaglehole Glacier , with its southeastern section forming the Heros Peninsula .
British scientists mapped it in 1974 and 1976. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2013 after the mountain Bigla in the Balkan Mountains in Bulgaria .
Web links
- Bigla Ridge in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)