Zavet Saddle

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Zavet Saddle
( mountain saddle )
Map of Smith Island with the Zavet Saddle (center)

Map of Smith Island with the Zavet Saddle (center)

Compass direction Northwest ( Bistra Glacier ) Southeast ( Dragoman Glacier )
height 1410  m
Smith Island , South Shetland Islands
Mountains Imeon Range
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Zavet Saddle (South Shetland Islands)
Zavet Saddle
Coordinates 63 ° 0 '22 "  S , 62 ° 33' 56"  W Coordinates: 63 ° 0 '22 "  S , 62 ° 33' 56"  W
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The Zavet Saddle (English; Bulgarian седловина Завет sedlowina Sawet ) is a 1410  m high saddle on Smith Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . In the Imeon Range, it lies between Slaveykov Peak in the southwest and Mount Foster in the northeast. It represents the watershed between the Dragoman Glacier and the Bistra Glacier .

Bulgarian scientists mapped it in 2009. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2008 after the town of Savet in northeastern Bulgaria .

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