Varshets saddle
| Varshets Saddle ( mountain saddle ) |
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 Map of Smith Island with the Varshets Saddle (center) |
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| Compass direction | Northwest ( Tschuprene Glacier ) | Southeast ( Kriwodol Glacier ) | |
| height | 1430 m | ||
| Smith Island , South Shetland Islands | |||
| Mountains | Imeon Range | ||
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 58 '12 " S , 62 ° 30' 35" W | ||
The Varshets Saddle (English; Bulgarian седловина Вършец sedlowina Warschez ) is a 1430 m high mountain saddle on Smith Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . In the Imeon Range, it lies between Antim Peak in the south-southwest and Slatina Peak in the northeast. It represents the watershed between the Tschuprene glacier and the Kriwodol glacier .
Bulgarian scientists mapped it in 2008. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in the same year after the town of Vashets in northwestern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Varshets Saddle in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)