Mount Ohridsky
| Mount Ohridsky | ||
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| height | 1500 m | |
| location | Alexander I Island ( West Antarctica ) | |
| Mountains | Sofia Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 30 ′ 17 ″ S , 71 ° 25 ′ 20 ″ W | |
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Mount Ohridsky , also known as Mount Kliment Ohridski (English; Bulgarian връх Климент Охридски wrach Kliment Ochridski ), is a 1500 m high and icy mountain on the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . In the southern part of the Sofia Mountains it rises 8 km south of Mount Braun .
The mountain was measured and named in February 1988 by scientists from the British Antarctic Survey and a Bulgarian Antarctic expedition. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 1989 after the Bulgarian scholar Kliment von Ohrid (≈850–916).
Web links
- Mount Ohridsky in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Ohridsky on geographic.org (English)
- Mount Kliment Ohridski in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)