Padesh Ridge
| Padesh Ridge | ||
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| Highest peak | Mount Baleen ( 910 m ) | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| part of | Aristotle Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 65 ° 36 ′ S , 62 ° 15 ′ W | |
Padesh Ridge (English; Bulgarian хребет Падеш chrebet Padesch ) is a rocky, east-west orientation 12.7 km long, 2.2 km wide and in Mount Baleen up to 910 m high mountain ridge in the Aristotle Mountains on the Oskar-II .-Coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It towers over the Rachel Glacier to the north and the Starbuck Glacier flowing south of it .
British scientists mapped it in 1976. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2013 after the town of Padesch in southwestern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Padesh Ridge in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)