Free saddle
| Kostenets Saddle ( mountain saddle ) |
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 Map of Smith Island with the Kostenets Saddle (above) |
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| Compass direction | West ( Wetrino glacier ) | East ( Zapalnya Cove ) | |
| height | 1520 m | ||
| Smith Island , South Shetland Islands | |||
| Mountains | Imeon Range | ||
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 56 ′ 46 ″ S , 62 ° 27 ′ 24 ″ W | ||
The Kostenets Saddle (English; Bulgarian Костенечка седловина Kostenezka sedlowina ) is a 1520 m high mountain saddle on Smith Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . In the Imeon Range it lies between Mount Pisgah in the north and the east ridge of Drinov Peak in the south. The head of the Wetrino Glacier lies west of it, to the east it leads to Zapalnya Cove .
Bulgarian scientists mapped it in 2009. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in the same year after the town of Kostenez in southwestern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Kostenets Saddle in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)