Aluzore Gap ( bg, седловина Алузоре, translit=Sedlovina Aluzore \se-dlo-vi-'na a-lu-'zo-re\) is the ice-covered saddle of elevation 1078 mReference Elevation Model of Antarctica.
Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019 connecting

Stribog Mountains Stribog Mountains ( bg, планина Стрибог, ‘Planina Stribog’ \pla-ni-'na 'stri-bog\) is the principal mountain system of Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica rising to 2498 m Solvay Mountains The Solvay Mountains are a mountain range that rises to 1590 m ( Cook Summit) and extends in an ENE–WSW direction in the south part of Brabant Island, in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica. They were discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedit ...

Brabant Island Brabant Island is the second largest island of the Palmer Archipelago within the British Antarctic Territory, lying between Anvers Island and Liège Island. Brabant Island is long north-south, wide, and rises to in Mount Parry. The interi ...

in the

Palmer Archipelago Palmer Archipelago, also known as Antarctic Archipelago, Archipiélago Palmer, Antarktiske Arkipel or Palmer Inseln, is a group of islands off the northwestern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. It extends from Tower Island in the north to Anver ...

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 cont ...

. It extends 3 km in north-northwest to south-southeast direction, and is part of the glacial divide between

Hippocrates Glacier Hippocrates Glacier () is a glacier at least long and wide, draining the southeast slopes of Stribog Mountains and flowing southeast between Solvay Mountains and Gutsal Ridge into Buls Bay on the east side of Brabant Island, in the Palmer Ar ...

to the east, and Zlatiya Glacier and Rush Glacier to the west and southwest respectively. The saddle is named after the ancient

Roman Roman or Romans most often refers to: *Rome, the capital city of Italy *Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD *Roman people, the people of ancient Rome *'' Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a lette ...

station of Aluzore in Southern Bulgaria.

Location

Aluzore Gap is centred at , which is 3.15 km east-southeast of

Veles Bastion Veles Bastion ( bg, рид Велес, rid Veles, ) is the ice-covered buttress of elevation 1223 m Mount Imhotep Mount Imhotep is a mountain rising near the head of Hippocrates Glacier in the southern part of Brabant Island, in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. It was first mapped by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Gerlache, 1897–99. The mountai ...

, 4.8 km northwest of Galen Peak and 3.2 km northeast of Mount Sarnegor. British mapping in 1980 and 2008.

Maps

Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
British Antarctic Territory.
Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 62. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1980.
Brabant Island to Argentine Islands.
Scale 1:250000 topographic map. British Antarctic Survey, 2008.

Notes

References

Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.
Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)
Aluzore Gap.
SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

External links

Aluzore Gap.
Copernix satellite image Brabant-Island

Landforms of the Palmer Archipelago Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{BrabantIsland-geo-stub