Korten Ridge
| Korten Ridge | ||
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| Highest peak | Mount Bris ( 1673 m ) | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
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| Coordinates | 63 ° 56 ′ S , 59 ° 53 ′ W | |
The Korten Ridge (English; Bulgarian Кортенски хребет Kortenski Chrebet ) is an 18 km long, 9 km wide and Mount Bris 1673 m high ridge with a north-south orientation on the Davis Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is bounded opposite the Detroit Plateau to the southeast by the Podvis Col , to the southwest by the Temple Glacier , to the west by Lanchester Bay , to the north by Wennersgaard Point and Jordanoff Bay and to the east by the Sabine Glacier .
German and British scientists mapped it together in 1996. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2010 after a town in southeastern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Korten Ridge in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)