Parlichev Ridge
| Parlichev Ridge | ||
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| Highest peak | Vrelo Peak ( 1250 m ) | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| part of | Aristotle Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 65 ° 30 ′ S , 62 ° 26 ′ W | |
Parlichev Ridge (English; Bulgarian Пърличев хребет Parlitschew chrebet ) is a narrow, rocky, 33.9 km long, 3.8 km wide and in Vrelo Peak 1250 m high mountain ridge in the Aristotle Mountains on the Oscar II coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It extends from the foothills of the Madrid Dome in an easterly direction to Kalina Point . The Melville Glacier is to the north, Domlyan Bay to the northeast, and the Pequod Glacier to the south of it. It is broken through by a branch of the Pequod Glacier, which flows north into the Melville Glacier.
British scientists mapped it in 1976. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2013 after the town of Parlichevo in northwestern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Parlichev Ridge in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)