Piyanets Ridge
| Piyanets Ridge | ||
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| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Havre Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 69 ° 20 ′ S , 71 ° 46 ′ W | |
Piyanets Ridge (English; Bulgarian рид Пиянец rid Pijanez ) is a north-south orientation 5.6 km long, 2.4 km wide and 1000 m high mountain ridge in the form of an upright V in the Havre Mountains in the north of the West Antarctic Alexander- I. Island off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 4.55 km northeast of the headland formed by Hopkins Ridge , 3.77 km southeast of Gasej Nunatak and 9.2 km northwest of Mount Holt . The Kolokita Cove is located southwest of him.
British scientists mapped it in 1971. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2017 after the Pijanez region in western Bulgaria .
Web links
- Piyanets Ridge in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)