Okorsh Saddle
| Okorsh Saddle ( mountain saddle ) |
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| Compass direction | West ( Breniza Glacier ) | East ( Rogosch Glacier ) | |
| height | 1150 m | ||
| Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |||
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| Coordinates | 64 ° 50 ′ 32 ″ S , 61 ° 22 ′ 18 ″ W | ||
The Okorsh Saddle ( Bulgarian седловина Окорш sedlowina Okorsch ) is a rocky and 1150 m high mountain saddle at the Oskar-II. coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is 11.45 km west of Mrahori Saddle , 1 km north of Stargel Peak and 10 km east-northeast of Mount Quandary the connection between the Foster Plateau in the north and the Ivanili Heights in the south as well as part of the watershed between the Breniza and the Rogosch Glacier .
British scientists mapped it in 1978. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2013 after the town of Okorsch in northeastern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Okorsh Saddle in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)