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Sipey Bluff ( bg, рид Сипей, rid Sipey, ) is the bluff rising to 2270 mReference Elevation Model of Antarctica.
Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019
in
Veregava Ridge Veregava Ridge ( bg, хребет Верегава, ‘Hrebet Veregava’ \'hre-bet ve-re-'ga-va\) is the ridge rising to 3210 m
, central
Sentinel Range The Sentinel Range is a major mountain range situated northward of Minnesota Glacier and forming the northern half of the Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica. The range trends NNW-SSE for about and is 24 to 48 km (15 to 30 mi) wide. Man ...
in
Ellsworth Mountains The Ellsworth Mountains are the highest mountain ranges in Antarctica, forming a long and wide chain of mountains in a north to south configuration on the western margin of the Ronne Ice Shelf in Marie Byrd Land. They are bisected by Minnesota ...
,
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 ...
. It surmounts
Orizari Glacier Orizari Glacier ( bg, ледник Оризари, lednik Orizari, ) is the long and wide glacier in Veregava Ridge on the east side of Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. It is draining the north slopes of Mount Waldron, and ...
to the south-southwest,
Dater Glacier The Dater Glacier is a steep valley glacier in Antarctica, long and from wide, flowing northeast in a sinuous course from the eastern slopes of the Vinson Massif between Sullivan Heights and Veregava Ridge to Rutford Ice Stream which border ...
to the west and north, and
Berisad Glacier Berisad Glacier ( bg, ледник Берисад, lednik Berisad, ) is a glacier long and wide in Veregava Ridge, central Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. It flows north-northwestwards from Kushla Peak to join Dater Glaci ...
to the east. The peak is named after the settlement of Sipey in Southern Bulgaria.


Location

Sipey Bluff is located at , which is 5.26 km north of
Mount Waldron Mount Waldron is a mountain (3,100 m) in Antarctica, the summit of Veregava Ridge in the Sentinel Range of Ellsworth Mountains. It is situated 3 nautical miles (6 km) north of Mount Tuck, and surmounts Dater Glacier to the west, Orizari G ...
, 9.46 km east by north of
Mount Segers Mount Segers () is a mountain at the south extremity of Sullivan Heights in the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica, separated from Vinson Massif to the southwest by Vranya Pass. It is situated 11 km (7 mi) east of Mo ...
, 5.71 km south-southeast of Mount Farrell and 4.15 km northwest of
Kushla Peak Kushla Peak ( bg, връх Кушла, vrah Kushla, ) is the peak rising to 2588 mVinson Massif.
Scale 1:250 000 topographic map. Reston, Virginia: US Geological Survey, 1988.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly updated.


Notes


References


Sipey Peak.
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


Sipey Bluff.
Copernix satellite image Ellsworth Mountains Mountains of Ellsworth Land Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{EllsworthLand-geo-stub