Sofia Mountains

Sofia Mountains
Highest peak	Mount Kliment Ohridski ( 1500 m )
location	Alexander I Island , West Antarctica
Coordinates	69 ° 29 ′ S , 71 ° 24 ′ W Coordinates: 69 ° 29 ′ S , 71 ° 24 ′ W

The Sofia Mountains , also known as Sofia University Mountains (English; Bulgarian планина Софийски Университет planina Sofijski Uniwersitet ), are a north-south facing mountain range 14 km long, 5.5 km wide and 1500 m high in Mount Kliment Ohridski in the northwest of the Alexander I Island west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises south-southeast of the Havre Mountains , southwest of the Rouen Mountains , northwest of the Elgar Uplands , east of the northern part of the Lassus Mountains and 6 km inland of Lasarew Bay . It is bounded to the north by the Palestrina Glacier , to the east by the Poste Valley , to the southeast by the Nichols snow field , by the Gilbert Glacier to the south and by the McManus Glacier to the west. These mountains include the Balan Ridge and Mount Braun .

American scientists mapped it in 1960. A British-Bulgarian team visited it in 1988. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 1989 after the University of Sofia on the occasion of its centenary. The English-language long form of the name was shortened in 1991 by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in accordance with the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names .

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