The Atlantic Club Ridge ( bg, връх Атлантически Клуб, vrah Atlanticheski Klub, ) is a ridge rising to 161 m on

Hurd Peninsula Hurd Peninsula lies between South Bay and False Bay on the south coast of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The Spanish Juan Carlos I Antarctic Base and the Bulgarian St. Kliment Ohridski Base are situated on its west ...

in Eastern

Livingston Island Livingston Island (Russian name ''Smolensk'', ) is an Antarctic island in the Southern Ocean, part of the South Shetlands Archipelago, a group of Antarctic islands north of the Antarctic Peninsula. It was the first land discovered south of 60 ...

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 ...

. To the west the ridge surmounts the South Bay coast north of

Johnsons Dock Johnsons Dock is a sheltered 500 m wide cove indenting for 900 m the northwest coast of Hurd Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is part of South Bay entered north of Ballester Point. Surmounted by Cha ...

, to the south it is bounded by the lower course of the two km long Contell Glacier, to the east by the foot of the

Balkan Snowfield Balkan Snowfield (Plato Balkan \'pla-to bal-'kan\) is an ice-covered plateau of elevation ranging from in eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, situated south of lower Perunika Glacier, northwest of Huntress Glaci ...

sloping up towards Krum Rock and to the northwest by

Sea Lion Tarn Sea Lion Tarn ( bg, езеро Морски Лъв, ezero Morski Lav, ) is a freshwater tarn with an area of located between Sea Lion Glacier and the north-western slopes of Atlantic Club Ridge on Hurd Peninsula in eastern Livingston Island i ...

. The ridge is snow-free in the summer months. The ridge's steep northern slopes are linked with

Hesperides Hill Hesperides Hill (Halm Hesperides \'h&lm he-spe-'ri-des\) is a ridge linked by a saddle of elevation 52 m with the northern slopes of Atlantic Club Ridge on Hurd Peninsula, eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The ...

by a saddle of 52 m elevation. The higher rocky ground on the Atlantic Club Ridge, as well as on the hills surmounting

Bulgarian Beach Bulgarian Beach (Balgarsko Kraybrezhie \'b&l-gar-sko krI-'bre-zhi-e\) is a coast in the north part of Hurd Peninsula, eastern Livingston Island, extending 2.3 km from Hespérides Point to the southwest to Perunika Glacier to the northeast ...

, is noted for its abundant bushy-grown

lichen A lichen ( , ) is a composite organism that arises from algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi species in a mutualistic relationship.moss Mosses are small, non-vascular flowerless plants in the taxonomic division Bryophyta (, ) '' sensu stricto''. Bryophyta (''sensu lato'', Schimp. 1879) may also refer to the parent group bryophytes, which comprise liverworts, mosses, and hor ...

and Antarctic hair-grass (''

Deschampsia antarctica ''Deschampsia antarctica'', the Antarctic hair grass, is one of two flowering plants native to Antarctica, the other being ''Colobanthus quitensis'' (Antarctic pearlwort). They mainly occur on the South Orkney Islands, the South Shetland Islands ...

'') communities thrive on the

guano Guano (Spanish from qu, wanu) is the accumulated excrement of seabirds or bats. As a manure, guano is a highly effective fertilizer due to the high content of nitrogen, phosphate, and potassium, all key nutrients essential for plant growth. G ...

-enriched soil on top of larger rocks at the seaward hill feet. In commemoration of the co-organizers of the 1993–94, 1994–95, and 1995–96 Bulgarian Antarctic campaigns the name Atlantic Club was originally applied in 1994 to the neighbouring glacier but, due to priority of the existing Spanish name (Glaciar Contell), the name was subsequently transferred to the present feature.

Location

The feature is 600 m long and 350 m wide, trending east by northeast to west by southwest, and is located at which is 730 m southeast of Hespérides Point, 950 m southwest of

Sinemorets Hill Sinemorets Hill (Halm Sinemorets \'h&lm si-ne-'mo-rets\) is the second most prominent (after Hesperides Hill) in the chain of hills surmounting Bulgarian Beach in eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Sinemorets ...

and 1.29 km northwest of the highest point of Charrúa Ridge (333 m). The ridge was mapped in detail by the Spanish Servicio Geográfico del Ejército in 1991.

Maps

Isla Livingston: Península Hurd.
Mapa topográfico de escala 1:25000. Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército, 1991. (Map reproduced on p. 16 of the linked work) * L.L. Ivanov. Livingston Island: Central-Eastern Region. Scale 1:25000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 1996. * L.L. Ivanov et al., Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands (from English Strait to Morton Strait, with illustrations and ice-cover distribution), 1:100000 scale topographic map,

of Bulgaria, Sofia, 2005 * L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2010. (First edition 2009. ) * Antarctica, South Shetland Islands, Livingston Island: Bulgarian Antarctic Base. Sheets 1 and 2. Scale 1:2000 topographic map. Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre Agency, 2016. (in Bulgarian)
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated. * L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Smith Island. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017.

References

Atlantic Club Ridge.
SCAR

Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica The Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (CGA) of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) is the authoritative international gazetteer containing all Antarctic toponyms published in national gazetteers, plus basic information about th ...

Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.

. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)

Bibliography

* J. Stewart

Jefferson, N.C. and London: McFarland, 2011. 1771 pp.

External links

Atlantic Club Ridge.
Copernix satellite image Ridges of Livingston Island {{LivingstonIsland-geo-stub

Location

See also

Maps

References

Bibliography

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