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Podvis Col ( bg, седловина Подвис, ‘Sedlovina Podvis’ \se-dlo-vi-'na 'pod-vis\) is the ice-covered col of elevation 1494 mReference Elevation Model of Antarctica.
Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019
on
Davis Coast Davis Coast () is that portion of the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Kjellman and Cape Sterneck. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Captain John Davis, the American sealer who claimed to have mad ...
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 ...
, extending 1.6 km between
Korten Ridge Korten Ridge ( bg, Кортенски хребет, ‘Kortenski Hrebet’ \'kor-ten-ski 'hre-bet\) is the ridge extending 18 km in south–north direction and 9 km wide, rising to 1864 mTsarevets Buttress Tsarevets Buttress ( bg, рид Царевец, ‘Rid Tsarevets’ \'rid tsa-'re-vets\) is the rounded ice-covered buttress extending in north-south direction and in east-west direction, rising to 1868 mDetroit 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 southeast. It is overlooking
Sabine Glacier Sabine Glacier () is a 13.5 km long glacier on the north side of Detroit Plateau, flowing from Mount Bris and Tsarevets Buttress northwards along the east slopes of Korten Ridge, and terminating at the sea in Jordanoff Bay on Davis Coast i ...
to the north and
Temple Glacier Temple Glacier () is a glacier flowing into the south side of Lanchester Bay on the west coast of Graham Land. Photographed by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. in 1955-57 and mapped from these photos by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). Named ...
to the southwest. The col is named after the settlement of Podvis in Southeastern Bulgaria.


Location

Podvis Col is centred at . German-British mapping in 1996.


Map


Trinity Peninsula.
Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.


Notes


References


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 data
in English)


External links


Podvis Col.
Copernix satellite image Mountain passes of Graham Land Bulgaria and the Antarctic Davis Coast {{DavisCoast-geo-stub