Oborishte Ridge (Rid Oborishte \'rid o-'bo-ri-shte\) has an elevation of 340 m in the southwest extremity of Breznik Heights,

Greenwich Island Greenwich Island (variant historical names ''Sartorius Island'', ''Berezina Island'') is an island long and from (average ) wide, lying between Robert Island and Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands. Surface area . The name Greenwic ...

in the

South Shetland Islands The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands with a total area of . They lie about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, and between southwest of the nearest point of the South Orkney Islands. By the Antarctic Treaty of 195 ...

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. Extending 1.7 km along the southeast coast of

Yankee Harbour Yankee Harbour is a small inner harbour entered from Shopski Cove between Glacier Bluff and Spit Point, indenting the south-west side of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is long in west-south-west to east-north- ...

and 950 m wide. Ice-free surface area (together with the adjoining

Provadiya Hook Provadiya Hook ( bg, Провадийска коса, Provadiyska Kosa, ) is a gravel barrier spit separating the inner Yankee Harbour in Greenwich Island, Antarctica from the outer Shopski Cove and McFarlane Strait. Boomerang-shaped, extend ...

) .L.L. Ivanov
Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands
. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. It surmounting Solis Glacier on the east and

Wulfila Glacier Wulfila Glacier ( bg, ледник Вулфила, lednik Vulfila, ) is located on the southern slopes of Breznik Heights, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, south-southwest of Solis Glacier and west of Zheravna Glac ...

on the southeast, and

on the north and

Doris Cove Doris Cove ( bg, залив Дорис, zaliv Doris, ) is the 1.3 km wide cove indenting for 600 m the southwest coast of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica south of Oborishte Ridge and northwest of Ephraim Bluff. It is ...

on the south. The ridge is named after the historic site of Oborishte in central

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Location

The summit of the ridge is located at , which is 2.17 km southeast of

Spit Point Spit Point () is the east tip of the long Elephant Spit, a conspicuous spit at the eastern end of Heard Island The Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands (HIMI) is an Australian external territory comprising a volcanic group of mos ...

, 2.54 km north-northwest of the summit of

Ephraim Bluff Ephraim Bluff is a 425 m ice-free bluff in the south of Breznik Heights, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The bluff is linked to Razgrad Peak to the north-northeast and separates the termini of Wulfila Glacier to the ...

and 1.77 km west-northwest of Terter Peak (Bulgarian topographic survey

Tangra 2004/05 The Tangra 2004/05 Expedition was commissioned by the Antarctic Place-names Commission at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria, managed by the Manfred Wörner Foundation, and supported by the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute, the I ...

and mapping in 2009).

Maps

* L.L. Ivanov
Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands
Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009.
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.

Notes

References

Oborishte Ridge.
SCAR

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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 data
in English)

External links

Oborishte Ridge.
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