Sherba Ridge
| Sherba Ridge | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| part of | Avery plateaus | |
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| Coordinates | 66 ° 45 ′ S , 65 ° 35 ′ W | |
Sherba Ridge (English; Bulgarian рид РидШерба rid Scherba ) is an icy, km in south-north-west orientation 13 long, 6 km wide and up to 2100 m high ridge on the Loubet coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 13.4 km east-southeast of Rubner Peak , 11.2 km south of Voit Peak and 6.68 km west of Zilva Peaks in the western foothills of the Avery plateau . Its steep south-west, north and east slopes are partly not icy. The Widdowson Glacier lies to the southwest, Darbel Bay to the northwest and the Drummond Glacier to the northeast and east of it.
British scientists mapped it in 1976. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2014 after the town of Scherba in the eastern Balkans .
Web links
- Sherba Ridge in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)