Klokotnitsa Ridge
| Klokotnitsa Ridge | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| part of | Detroit plateau | |
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| Coordinates | 63 ° 58 ′ S , 59 ° 27 ′ W | |
The Klokotnitsa Ridge (English; Bulgarian хребет Клокотница chrebet Klokotniza ) is a rounded, north-south orientation 12 km long, 4 km wide and up to 1554 m high mountain ridge on the Trinity Peninsula of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 28.8 km southeast of Cape Kater and 26.7 km south of Cape Kjellman on the northwest side of the Detroit Plateau . The Dragor Hill and Borovan Knoll two northern foothills of the ridge. Its steep west, north and east slopes are partly not icy. The Whitecloud Glacier is to the west and the McNeile Glacier is to the east of it.
German and British scientists mapped it in 1996. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2016 after the town of Klokotnitsa in southern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Klokotnitsa Ridge in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)