Cherepish Ridge
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| location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| part of | Tangra Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 38 ′ S , 60 ° 2 ′ W | |
 Map of the Tangra Mountains with the Cherepish Ridge |
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Cherepish Ridge (English; Bulgarian Черепишки рид Tscherepischki rid ) is a narrow, up to 650 m high and 1 km long mountain ridge with north-south orientation on Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . In the Tangra Mountains, it rises 1.9 km north-northwest of Helmet Peak , 6.3 km east of Kuzman Knoll and 4.7 km southeast of Atanasoff Nunatak .
Bulgarian scientists mapped it between 2004 and 2005. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2005 after a monastery in the Iskar Gorge in western Bulgaria .
Web links
- Cherepish Ridge in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)