Piyanets Ridge
Piyanets Ridge (Bulgarian: рид Пиянец, ‘Rid Piyanets’ \'rid pi-ya-'nets\) is the upturned V-shaped, mostly ice-free ridge extending 5.6 km in north-south direction, 2.4 km wide and rising to 590 m[1] in Havre Mountains, northern Alexander Island in Antarctica. It surmounts Kolokita Cove to the southwest. The feature is named after the region of Piyanets in Western Bulgaria.
Location
[edit | edit source]Piyanets Ridge is located at Lua error in Module:Coordinates at line 489: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value)., which is 4.55 km northeast of the coastal point formed by Hopkins Ridge, 3.77 km southeast of Gazey Nunatak and 9.2 km northwest of Mount Holt.
Maps
[edit | edit source]- British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 – W 69 70. Tolworth, UK, 1971
- Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated
Notes
[edit | edit source]- ^ Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica. Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019
References
[edit | edit source]- Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
- Piyanets Ridge. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
External links
[edit | edit source]- Piyanets Ridge. Copernix satellite image
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.
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