Galabov Ridge
| Galabov Ridge | ||
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| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Havre Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 69 ° 9 ′ S , 71 ° 53 ′ W | |
Galabov Ridge (English; Bulgarian Гълъбов рид Galabov rid ) is a north-north-south-south-west orientation 2.5 km long, 1.4 km wide, 1100 m high and mostly icy ridge of the Havre Mountains in the north of the West Antarctic Alexander I Island off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 5.76 km east of St. George Peak , 4.07 km west-northwest of Satovcha Peak and 6.33 km north of Nicolai Peak . The Bongrain-Piedmont Glacier is northwest and the Lennon Glacier is south of it.
British scientists mapped it in 1971. The Bulgarian geologists Christo Pimpirew and Borislaw Kamenow visited it on January 4, 1988 together with Philip Nell and Peter Marquis from the British Antarctic Survey . The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2017 after the Bulgarian stenographer Teodor Galabow (1870-1925), who had developed a keyboard layout for the Bulgarian language in 1907 .
Web links
- Galabov Ridge in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)