Sostra Heights ( bg, Состренски възвишения, ‘Sostrenski Vazvisheniya’ \'so-stren-ski v&-zvi-'she-ni-ya\) are the heights rising ro 2352 mReference Elevation Model of Antarctica.
Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019 at Mount Malone on the east side of northern

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 ...

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 ...

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. They extend 22 km in northwest–southeast direction and 16.5 km in northeast–southwest direction. The heights are bounded by Embree Glacier to the south,

Sabazios Glacier Sabazios Glacier ( bg, ледник Сабазий, lednik Sabaziy, ) is the long and wide glacier on the east side of northern Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. It is situated south of Newcomer Glacier, west of Anchialus Gl ...

to the west,

Newcomer Glacier Newcomer Glacier () is a glacier long transecting the north part of the Sentinel Range, flowing from the vicinity of Allen Peak southeast between Gromshin Heights and the main ridge of range, and then east between Gromshin Heights and Sost ...

to the north and

Rutford Ice Stream Rutford Ice Stream () is a major Antarctic ice stream, about long and over wide, which drains southeastward between the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains and Fletcher Ice Rise into the southwest part of Ronne Ice Shelf. Named by US-ACAN ...

to the east, and separated by

Robinson Pass Robinson Pass ( bg, проход Робинсън, ''Prohod Robinson''), in Antarctica, is the ice-covered saddle of elevation

to the southwest from the side ridge that trends 9.15 km east-northeastwards from

Mount Dalrymple Mount Dalrymple () is a mountain (3,600 m) between Mount Alf and Mount Goldthwait in the northern part of the Sentinel Range, Antarctica. It surmounts Sabazios Glacier to the north-northeast and Embree Glacier to the southeast. The mountai ...

on the main crest of Sentinel Range. Their interior is drained by Anchialus Glacier and

Vit Ice Piedmont Vit Ice Piedmont ( bg, ледник Вит, lednik Vit, ) is the glacier extending 12 km in north-south direction and 6 km in east-west direction in Sostra Heights on the east side of northern Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, An ...

. The heights are named after the ancient

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fortress of Sostra in Northern Bulgaria.

Location

Sostra Heights are centred at . US mapping in 1961.

Features

Geographical features include:

* Anchialus Glacier * Blenika Peak * Bracken Peak * Embree Glacier * Mount Lanning * Mount Malone * Mount McKeown *

Robinson Pass Robinson Pass ( bg, проход Робинсън, ''Prohod Robinson''), in Antarctica, is the ice-covered saddle of elevation

* Skaklya Glacier *

Zhenda Glacier Zhenda Glacier ( bg, ледник Женда, lednik Zhenda, ) is the 8 km long and 4.8 km wide glacier on the east side of the main crest of northern Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. It is situated west of Sabazio ...

Maps

Newcomer Glacier.
Scale 1:250 000 topographic map. Reston, Virginia: US Geological Survey, 1961.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.

Notes

References

Sostra Heights.

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.
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.

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External links

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