Kipra Gap
| Kipra Gap ( mountain saddle ) |
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| height | 1650 m | ||
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| Mountains | Sentinel Range in the Ellsworth Mountains | ||
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 30 ′ 10 ″ S , 85 ° 57 ′ 20 ″ W | ||
The Kipra Gap (English; Bulgarian седловина Кипра sedlowina Kipra ) is a 2.3 km long, 1650 m high and mostly icy mountain saddle in the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . In the northern Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains it combines 12 km northeast of the Skamni Saddle the Mount Weems in the north with the Gromshin Heights in the south.
American scientists mapped it in 1961. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2014 after the town of Kipra in northeastern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Kipra Gap in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)