Sonketa Ridge
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| part of | Detroit plateau | |
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| Coordinates | 64 ° 14 ′ S , 60 ° 53 ′ W | |
Sonketa Ridge (English; Bulgarian Хребет Сонкета Chrebet Sonketa ) is a km in the east-west orientation 11,5 long, 4 km wide, up to 1000 m high and largely unvereister ridge on the Danco Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises from the western foothills of the Detroit Plateau and is partly on the Reljowo Peninsula . With the northwest slopes of the Razhana Buttress it is connected to the east via the Zhelad Saddle . The Sikorsky Glacier is to the north and the Trepetlika Glacier is south of it.
British scientists mapped it in 1978 The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2014 after the ancient Thracian village of Sonketa in western Bulgaria .
Web links
- Sonketa Ridge in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)