Ponor Saddle
| Ponor Saddle ( mountain saddle ) |
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| height | 2000 m | ||
| Northwest | southeast | ||
| Mountains | Sentinel Range in the Ellsworth Mountains | ||
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 43 ′ 0 ″ S , 84 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ W | ||
The Ponor Saddle (English; Bulgarian седловина Понор sedlowina Ponor ) is a 1.6 km long, 2000 m high, flat and icy mountain saddle in the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . In the southern Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains , it forms 1.44 km north of Mount Liptak , 4 km east-southeast of Krusha Peak and 2.38 km south-southeast of Mount Allen, a section of the watershed between the Bolgrad and Kornicker glaciers .
American scientists mapped it in 1988. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2012 after the town of Ponor in western Bulgaria .
Web links
- Ponor Saddle in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)