Plíska Ridge
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 View from the Orpheus Pass to the Plíska Ridge |
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| location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 39 ′ S , 60 ° 14 ′ W | |
 Map of Livingston Island (center) with Pliska Ridge |
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Plíska Ridge ( Bulgarian Врах Плиска Wrach Pliska ) is an up to 681 m high mountain ridge on Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It rises east-northeast of the Willan Nunatak .
The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 1995 in honor of the city of Plíska , the capital of the First Bulgarian Empire from 681 to 893. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee transferred the Bulgarian name to English that same year.
Web links
- Plíska Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Plíska Ridge on geographic.org (English)