Gutsal Ridge
| Gutsal Ridge | ||
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| location | Brabant Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| part of | Stribog Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 64 ° 20 ′ S , 62 ° 21 ′ W | |
Gutsal Ridge (English; Bulgarian Гуцалски рид Guzalski rid ) is an icy, northwest-southeast orientation 10.4 km long and up to 1600 m high mountain ridge on the Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises on the southeast side of the Stribog Mountains . Its south-eastern half is characterized by steep and partly un-iced south-western slopes. The Hippocrates Glacier is southwest, the Balanstra Glacier northeast of it.
British scientists mapped it in 1980 and 2008. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2015 after the town of Guzal in western Bulgaria .
Web links
- Gutsal Ridge in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)