Talaskara Ridge
| Talaskara Ridge | ||
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| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Rouen Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 68 ° 56 ′ S , 71 ° 5 ′ W | |
Talaskara Ridge (English; Bulgarian рид Таласкара rid Talaskara ) is an icy, in a southeast-northwest orientation 7.5 km long, 1.8 km wide and up to 1800 m high mountain ridge on the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . It rises 30.9 km southwest of Cape Arauco , 5.77 km west-southwest of Mount Bayonne , 9.4 km northwest of Mount Paris and 29.95 km northeast of Mount Newman on the northwest side of the Rouen Mountains . The Bongrain-Piedmont Glacier lies to the west and southwest of it.
British scientists mapped it in 1991. The two Bulgarian geologists Christo Pimperew and Borislaw Kamenow visited it on January 6, 1988 together with Philip Nell and Peter Marquis from the British Antarctic Survey . The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2017 after the ancient Thracian fortress Talaskara in southeastern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Talaskara Ridge in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)