Presian Ridge
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 View from Wörner Gap to Presian Ridge (right: Mount Friesland ) |
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| location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| part of | Tangra Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 40 ′ S , 60 ° 10 ′ W | |
 Map of the Tangra Mountains with the Presian Ridge |
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Presian Ridge (English; Bulgarian Пресиянов рид Presijanow rid ) is a maximum 1465 m high and 0.95 km long mountain ridge with east-west orientation on Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . In the Friesland Ridge of the Tangra Mountains , Mount Friesland extends in the west to the Catalunyan Saddle in the east and rises 3.5 km south of the Kuzman Knoll and 4.1 km southeast of the main summit of the Plíska Ridge .
Bulgarian scientists mapped it between 2004 and 2005. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2005 after Presian I , from 836 to 852 Khan of Bulgaria .
Web links
- Presian Ridge in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)