Taridin Ridge
| Taridin Ridge | ||
|---|---|---|
| Highest peak | Mount Mayhew ( 1200 m ) | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| part of | Aristotle Mountains | |
|
||
| Coordinates | 65 ° 33 ′ S , 62 ° 30 ′ W | |
Taridin Ridge (English; Bulgarian хребет Таридин chrebet Taridin ) is a rocky, y- shaped, east-west orientation 20 km long, 7.15 km wide and in Mount Mayhew up to 1200 m high ridge in the Aristotle Mountains on the Oskar -II. coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic peninsula . The Pequod Glacier is to the north and the Starbuck Glacier is south of it.
British scientists mapped it in 1976. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2013 after Taridin , governor of southwest Bulgaria during the reigns of Tsars Simeon I and Peter I between the 9th and 10th centuries.
Web links
- Taridin Ridge in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)