Valkosel Ridge
| Valkosel Ridge | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| part of | Aristotle Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 65 ° 42 ′ S , 62 ° 40 ′ W | |
Valkosel Ridge (English; Bulgarian хребет Вълкосел chrebet Walkossel ) is a narrow, north-south orientation 8.8 km long, 1.6 km wide and up to 1050 m high mountain ridge in the Aristotle Mountains on the Oskar II coast of graham land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises in the southern foothills of Mount Sara Teodora 5.29 km south-southwest of its summit, 4.73 km west of Chintulov Ridge , 11.71 km north of Bildad Peak and 8.06 km east-northeast of Mount Fedallah . The Belogradchik Glacier is to the west, the Ambergris Glacier to the east, and the Flask Glacier to the south of it.
British scientists mapped it in 1976. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2013 after the town of Walkossel in southwestern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Valkosel Ridge in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)