Candidiana Ridge
| Candidiana Ridge | ||
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| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Elgar Uplands | |
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| Coordinates | 69 ° 40 ′ S , 71 ° 2 ′ W | |
Candidiana Ridge (English; Bulgarian рид Кандидиана rid Candidiana ) is a partially icy, 6 km long, 1.1 km wide and up to 1000 m high mountain ridge on the west side of the Elgar Uplands in the north of the Alexander I Island west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 12.24 km north-northwest of Mount Pinafore , 18.67 km east of Mount Morley , 15.26 km southeast of Shaw Nunatak and 9 km south of Tegra Nunatak . Its north-northeast side is crescent-shaped. The Nichols Snowfield is northwest, the Delius Glacier northeast and the Bartók Glacier south of it.
British scientists mapped it in 1971. The Bulgarian geologists Christo Pimpirew and Borislaw Kamenow visited the area on January 30, 1988 together with Philip Nell and Peter Marquis from the British Antarctic Survey . The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named the ridge in 2017 after the Roman camp of Candiana in northeastern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Candidiana Ridge in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria : Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer (PDF file, short version without descriptions), accessed on January 30, 2019