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Klokotnitsa Ridge
Klokotnitsa Ridge ( bg, хребет Клокотница, ‘Hrebet Klokotnitsa’ \'hre-bet klo-'kot-ni-tsa\) is the rounded ice-covered ridge extending 12 km in north-south direction, 4 km wide and rising to 1600 mReference Elevation Model of Antarctica. Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019 on in , . It is situated on the northwest side of |
Ridge
A ridge or a mountain ridge is a geographical feature consisting of a chain of mountains or hills that form a continuous elevated crest for an extended distance. The sides of the ridge slope away from the narrow top on either side. The lines along the crest formed by the highest points, with the terrain dropping down on either side, are called the ridgelines. Ridges are usually termed hills or mountains as well, depending on size. Smaller ridges, especially those leaving a larger ridge, are often referred to as spurs. Types There are several main types of ridges: ;Dendritic ridge: In typical dissected plateau terrain, the stream drainage valleys will leave intervening ridges. These are by far the most common ridges. These ridges usually represent slightly more erosion resistant rock, but not always – they often remain because there were more joints where the valleys formed or other chance occurrences. This type of ridge is generally somewhat random in orientation, often ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trinity Peninsula
Trinity Peninsula is the northernmost part of the Antarctic Peninsula. It extends northeastward for about 130 km (80 mi) to Cape Dubouzet from an imaginary line connecting Cape Kater on the north-west coast and Cape Longing on the south-east coast. Prime Head is the northernmost point of this peninsula. Some 20 kilometers southeast of Prime Head is Hope Bay with the year-round Argentinian Esperanza Base. History It was first sighted on 30 January 1820 by Edward Bransfield, Master, Royal Navy, immediately after his charting of the newly discovered South Shetland Islands nearby. In the century following the peninsula's discovery, chartmakers used various names (Trinity Land, Palmer Land, and Land of Louis Philippe) for this portion of it, each name having some historical merit. The recommended name derives from "Trinity Land", given by Bransfield during 1820 in likely recognition of the Corporation of Trinity House, Britain's historical maritime pilotage authority, altho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham Land
Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in which the name "Antarctic Peninsula" was approved for the major peninsula of Antarctica, and the names Graham Land and Palmer Land for the northern and southern portions, respectively. The line dividing them is roughly 69 degrees south. Graham Land is named after Sir James R. G. Graham, First Lord of the Admiralty at the time of John Biscoe's exploration of the west side of Graham Land in 1832. It is claimed by Argentina (as part of Argentine Antarctica), Britain (as part of the British Antarctic Territory) and Chile (as part of the Chilean Antarctic Territory). Graham Land is the closest part of Antarctica to South America. Thus it is the usual destination for small ships taking paying ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antarctica
Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest continent, being about 40% larger than Europe, and has an area of . Most of Antarctica is covered by the Antarctic ice sheet, with an average thickness of . Antarctica is, on average, the coldest, driest, and windiest of the continents, and it has the highest average elevation. It is mainly a polar desert, with annual precipitation of over along the coast and far less inland. About 70% of the world's freshwater reserves are frozen in Antarctica, which, if melted, would raise global sea levels by almost . Antarctica holds the record for the lowest measured temperature on Earth, . The coastal regions can reach temperatures over in summer. Native species of animals include mites, nematodes, penguins, seals and tardigrades. Where vegetation o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Detroit Plateau
Detroit Plateau () is a major interior plateau of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula, with heights between . Its northeast limit is marked by the south wall of Russell West Glacier, from which it extends some in a general southwest direction to Herbert Plateau. The plateau was observed from the air by Sir Hubert Wilkins on a flight of December 20, 1928. Wilkins named it Detroit Aviation Society Plateau after the society which aided in the organizing of his expedition, but the shortened form of the original name is approved. The north and east sides of the plateau were charted by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1946–47. Dinsmoor Glacier flows east from the south edge of Detroit Plateau. Central plateaus of Graham Land North to south: * Laclavère Plateau * Louis Philippe Plateau * Detroit Plateau * Herbert Plateau * Foster Plateau * Forbidden Plateau * Bruce Plateau * Avery Plateau * Hemimont Plateau Hemimont Plateau ( bg, плато Хемимонт, plato He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dragor Hill
Charcot Bay is a bay about wide between Cape Kater and Cape Kjellman along the Davis Coast of Graham Land. It was discovered by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, under Otto Nordenskiöld. He named it for Dr. Jean-Baptiste Charcot, a noted Arctic explorer. Geographical features Like the bay itself, many of its coastal features were discovered by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition under Nordenskiöld. Unless otherwise noted, the following features were charted and named by the SAE. Places named for Bulgarian localities and people were mapped by a German-British survey in 1996. Whittle Peninsula To the west, Charcot Bay is defined by Whittle Peninsula, a 5 nautical mile- (9 km) long peninsula which terminates in Tarakchiev Point to the west, Cape Kater to the northwest and Radibosh Point to the north. The peninsula was surveyed by SAE in 1902, and named in 1977 by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC), who named it after Royal Air Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borovan Knoll
Borovan Knoll ( bg, Борованска могила, ‘Borovanska Mogila’ \bo-ro-'van-ska mo-'gi-la\) is the hill rising to 878 m on the west coast of Lindblad Cove on Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula. Situated 1.85 km east-southeast of Dragor Hill and 3.88 km south-southeast of Almond Point, which is formed by an offshoot of the hill. The hill is named after the settlement of Borovan in northwestern Bulgaria. Location Borovan Knoll is located at . 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), 1993–2016. Notes References Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarianbasic datain English) Borovan Knoll.SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer The Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whitecloud Glacier
Charcot Bay is a bay about wide between Cape Kater and Cape Kjellman along the Davis Coast of Graham Land. It was discovered by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, under Otto Nordenskiöld. He named it for Dr. Jean-Baptiste Charcot, a noted Arctic explorer. Geographical features Like the bay itself, many of its coastal features were discovered by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition under Nordenskiöld. Unless otherwise noted, the following features were charted and named by the SAE. Places named for Bulgarian localities and people were mapped by a German-British survey in 1996. Whittle Peninsula To the west, Charcot Bay is defined by Whittle Peninsula, a 5 nautical mile- (9 km) long peninsula which terminates in Tarakchiev Point to the west, Cape Kater to the northwest and Radibosh Point to the north. The peninsula was surveyed by SAE in 1902, and named in 1977 by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC), who named it after Royal Air Force o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McNeile Glacier
Charcot Bay is a bay about wide between Cape Kater and Cape Kjellman along the Davis Coast of Graham Land. It was discovered by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, under Otto Nordenskiöld. He named it for Dr. Jean-Baptiste Charcot, a noted Arctic explorer. Geographical features Like the bay itself, many of its coastal features were discovered by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition under Nordenskiöld. Unless otherwise noted, the following features were charted and named by the SAE. Places named for Bulgarian localities and people were mapped by a German-British survey in 1996. Whittle Peninsula To the west, Charcot Bay is defined by Whittle Peninsula, a 5 nautical mile- (9 km) long peninsula which terminates in Tarakchiev Point to the west, Cape Kater to the northwest and Radibosh Point to the north. The peninsula was surveyed by SAE in 1902, and named in 1977 by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC), who named it after Royal Air Force of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klokotnitsa (Haskovo)
Klokotnitsa () is a village in southern Bulgaria in the Haskovo Municipality. It has a population of 619 people (as of June, 2005). The village is famous for the great battle on 9 March 1230, between the Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II and the Byzantine Greek ruler Theodore Komnenos Doukas. After the battle, Bulgaria became for a time the largest power in the Balkan peninsula, stretching between the Black Sea, the Aegean Sea and the Adriatic Sea. To mark the victory, Tsar Ivan Asen II built the SS. Forty Martyrs Church in Veliko Tarnovo and put a stone column in it. A small relief by the E-80 international road commemorates the battle. This village once belonged to the Hasköylü Ağalık, (Agaluk of Haskovo) Honours Klokotnitsa Ridge on Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cape Kater
Cape Kater () is a cape fringed by rocks, forming the northwestern extremity of Whittle Peninsula on the west coast of Graham Land. This coast was sketched by a British expedition 1828–31, under Henry Foster, who named a cape in this region after Captain Henry Kater, a member of the committee which planned the expedition. This region was more fully mapped by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, under Otto Nordenskjold Otto is a masculine German given name and a surname. It originates as an Old High German short form (variants ''Audo'', '' Odo'', ''Udo'') of Germanic names beginning in ''aud-'', an element meaning "wealth, prosperity". The name is recorded f ..., who gave the name "Cape Gunnar" to this cape. The name Kater perpetuates the earlier naming. See also * Kater Rocks, cluster of rocks 1 nautical mile (2 km) northwest of Cape Kater References External links * Headlands of Graham Land Davis Coast {{DavisCoast-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
