Snegotin Ridge

Snegotin Ridge (Bulgarian: Снеготински рид, ‘Snegotinski Rid’ \'sne-go-tin-ski 'rid\) is the ice-covered ridge rising to over 1200 m on the northwest side of Louis-Philippe Plateau on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. It is overlooking Bransfield Strait to the north, and Prelez Gap and the head of Malorad Glacier to the west-soothwest. Snegotin Ridge is extending 6.5 km in southwest-northeast direction, 4 km wide, and linked to the south to Louis-Philippe Plateau by Huhla Col.

Location of Trinity Peninsula.

The ridge is named after the settlement of Snegotin in Southern Bulgaria.

Location

Snegotin Ridge is centred at 63°33′40″S 58°27′50″W. German-British mapping in 1996.

Maps

Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly updated.

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References

Snegotin Ridge. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)

External links

Snegotin 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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