Veregava Ridge
| Veregava Ridge | ||
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| Highest peak | Mount Waldron ( 3100 m ) | |
| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Sentinel Range , Ellsworth Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 78 ° 27 ′ S , 84 ° 37 ′ W | |
Veregava Ridge (English; Bulgarian хребет Верегава chrebet Weregawa ) is a southwest-northeast orientation 15.7 km long, 6 km wide and in Mount Waldron up to 3100 m high mountain ridge in the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . In the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains, it rises in the northeastern foothills of the Vinson massif . It is bounded to the west and north by the Dater Glacier and to the southeast by the Hansen Glacier . The Manole Pass separates it from the Doyran Heights towering south .
American scientists mapped it in 1988. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2011 after an old Bulgarian name for the eastern Balkan mountains .
Web links
- Veregava Ridge in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)