Devin Saddle
Devin Saddle ( mountain saddle ) |
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View of the Devin Saddle from Bransfield Strait (front: Magura Glacier ) |
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Compass direction | Northeast | southwest | |
height | 500 m | ||
Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |||
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Coordinates | 62 ° 38 '56 " S , 59 ° 58' 41" W |
The Devin Saddle ( Bulgarian Девинска седловина Dewinska sedlowina ) is a 500 m high mountain saddle on Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . In the Tangra Mountains it is east of Levski Ridge , west of Delchev Ridge , 1.7 km east of Plovdiv Peak and 1 km west-southwest of Ruse Peak . It occupies the watershed between the Iskar glacier in the north and the Magura glacier to the south .
The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2002 after the town of Dewin in southern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Devin Saddle in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)