Melnik Ridge
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 View from Komini Peak to the Melnik Ridge |
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| location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 36 ′ S , 60 ° 9 ′ W | |
Melnik Ridge (English; Bulgarian Мелнишки хребет Melnischki chrebet ) is a narrow, 1.9 km long and 0.5 km wide mountain ridge with an east-west orientation on Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . Its center is 4.16 km east of Hemus Peak , 3.5 km northeast of Mount Bowles and 4.1 km north to east of Kuzman Knoll . Its southern slopes are steep and partly free of ice. The Kaliakra glacier is north of it.
The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 1997 after the town of Melnik in southwestern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Melnik Ridge in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)