Aldomir Ridge ( bg, Алдомирски хребет, Aldomirski Hrebet, ) is the mostly ice-free ridge on southern
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 sou ...
in
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 ...
,
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 contine ...
, bounded by
Sjögren Glacier
Sjogren Glacier () is a glacier long in the south part of Trinity Peninsula, flowing southeast from Detroit Plateau in between Aldomir Ridge and Hazarbasanov Ridge to enter Prince Gustav Channel at the head of Sjögren Inlet, west of Royak P ...
to the west and
Boydell Glacier
Boydell Glacier () is a glacier on Trinity Peninsula in northern Graham Land. It is about long, flowing southeastward from Detroit Plateau to enter Sjögren Inlet in Prince Gustav Channel north of the terminus of Sjögren Glacier and west of ...
to the east. It extends 14 km between
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 the north-northwest and
Sjögren Inlet to the south-southeast, its southeast extremity forming
Royak Point. The ridge is 4.2 km wide and rising to 1445 m
[Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica.]
Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019 at its north extremity.
The ridge is named after the settlement of
Aldomirovtsi
Aldomirovtsi ( ) is a village in Slivnitsa Municipality, Sofia Province, in western Bulgaria approximately 36 km from Sofia.
Aldomir Ridge in Antarctica
Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated ...
in Western
Bulgaria
Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedon ...
.
Location
Aldomir Ridge is centred at .
Map
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
Notes
References
Aldomir Ridge.SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.Antarctic Place-names Commission
The Antarctic Place-names Commission was established by the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute in 1994, and since 2001 has been a body affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria.
The Commission approves Bulgarian place names in ...
. (details in Bulgarian
basic datain English)
External links
Aldomir Ridge.Copernix satellite image
Ridges of Graham Land
Landforms of Trinity Peninsula
Bulgaria and the Antarctic
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