Soyka Saddle
| Soyka Saddle ( mountain saddle ) |
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| Compass direction | North northwest | South southeast | |
| height | 1250 m | ||
| Clarence Island , South Shetland Islands | |||
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| Coordinates | 61 ° 14 ′ 24 ″ S , 54 ° 6 ′ 45 ″ W | ||
The Soyka Saddle (English; Bulgarian седловина Сойка sedlowina Sojka ) is an icy and 1250 m high mountain saddle on Clarence Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It connects the Ravelin Ridge with the Urda Ridge . The saddle is located south-southwest of Jerez Peak , north-northeast of Mount Llana , 4.6 km east-northeast of Vaglen Point , 6.07 km south-southeast of Humble Point and 4.45 km west-northwest of Lebed Point . The Highton Glacier is east of it.
British scientists mapped it in 1972 and 2009. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2014 after the town of Sojka in southern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Soyka Saddle in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)