Kormyansko Saddle
| Kormyansko Saddle ( mountain saddle ) |
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| Compass direction | West ( Blériot Glacier ) | East ( Cayley Glacier ) | |
| height | 1100 m | ||
| Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |||
| Mountains | Herbert Plateau | ||
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| Coordinates | 64 ° 27 '44 " S , 61 ° 1' 12" W | ||
The Kormyansko Saddle ( Bulgarian Кормянска седловина Kormjanska sedlowina ) is an icy and 1100 m high mountain pass in the northern reaches of the Herbert plateau at the Oskar-II. coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It connects the Obretenik Bastion with the Egerika Range 3.7 km north of the summit of the Obretenik Bastion , 7.1 km southeast of the Farman Nunatak and 14 km west-southwest of Mount Berry . The saddle is part of the watershed between the Blériot and Cayley glaciers .
British scientists mapped it in 1978. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2014 after the town of Kormjansko in northeastern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Kormyansko Saddle in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)