Vishna Pass ( bg, проход Вишна, ‘Prohod Vishna’ \'pro-hod 'vi-shna\) is the ice-covered saddle of elevation 632 mReference Elevation Model of Antarctica.
Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019 separating

Poibrene Heights Poibrene Heights are the heights rising to 948 m (Dimcha Peak) on Oscar II Coast, Graham Land in Antarctica. They are extending 18 km in northwest-southeast direction and 10 km wide, and surmounting Evans Glacier (Graham Land), Evans Gla ...

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Forbidden Plateau The Forbidden Plateau is a small, hilly plateau in the east of the Vancouver Island Vancouver Island Ranges, Ranges in British Columbia, northwest of Comox Lake roughly between Mount Albert Edward (British Columbia), Mount Albert Edward to the sou ...

Oscar II Coast Oscar II Coast is that portion of the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Fairweather to the north, and Cape Alexander to the south. Discovered in 1893 by Captain C.A. Larsen, who named it for King Oscar II of Norway and Sweden. ...

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 ...

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. It is part of the glacial divide between Evans Glacier to the north and Punchbowl Glacier to the south. The feature is named after the settlement of Vishna in eastern

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Location

Vishna Pass is located at , which is 2.8 km south of Mount Bistre, 5.7 km west of Kamenov Spur, and 4.75 km north of

St. Angelariy Peak St. Angelariy Peak ( bg, връх Св. Ангеларий, vrah Sv. Angelariy, ) is the rocky, partly ice-free peak rising to 980 m

in Metlichina Ridge. British mapping in 1974.

Maps

Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.

Notes

References

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

Vishna Pass.
Copernix satellite image Mountain passes of Graham Land Oscar II Coast Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{OscarIICoast-geo-stub