Viskyar Ridge (''’rid vis-’kyar'') is a rocky ridge rising to 600 m and extending 2.5 km in north-south direction in

Breznik Heights Breznik Heights (Breznishki Vazvisheniya \'brez-nish-ki v&-zvi-'she-ni-ya\) rises to over 600 m in the southeast part of Greenwich Island in Antarctica. They extend 12 km between Santa Cruz Point in the northeast and the base of the moraine ...

, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The ice-free surface area of the ridge is .L.L. Ivanov
Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.
Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. Surmounting

Zheravna Glacier Zheravna Glacier ( bg, ледник Жеравна, lednik Zheravna, ) is a glacier on Greenwich Island, Antarctica situated east of Wulfila Glacier and west of Targovishte Glacier. It is bounded by Razgrad Peak to the west, Ilinden Peak and M ...

to the west and

Targovishte Glacier Targovishte Glacier ( bg, ледник Търговище, lednik Targovishte, ) is situated in Breznik Heights on Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, east of Zheravna Glacier and southwest of Musala Glacier. It is bound ...

to the east, with its south extremity forming Sartorius Point. The feature is named after Viskyar Mountain in western Bulgaria.

Location

The ridge's summit at its north extremity of the ridge is located 1.49 km southeast of

Momchil Peak Momchil Peak ( bg, Момчилов връх) is an ice-covered peak rising to 625 m in Breznik Heights, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The peak is located north of Zheravna Glacier, 590 m east of Ilinden Peak, 1.7&nb ...

, 1.65 km southwest of Lyutitsa Nunatak, 1.14 km west of

Vratsa Peak Vratsa Peak ( bg, връх Враца, vrah Vratsa, ) is a sharp rocky peak rising to 470 m in Breznik Heights, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica surmounting Musala Glacier to the northeast and Targovishte Glacier to the ...

, 1.79 km west-northwest of

Ziezi Peak Ziezi Peak ( bg, връх Зиези, vrah Ziezi, ) ia s rocky peak rising to 320 m in the southeast extremity of Breznik Heights on Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica overlooking Targovishte Glacier to the west. The ...

, 2.05 km north of

Sartorius Point Sartorius Point is a sharp ice-free tipped point formed by an offshoot of Viskyar Ridge and marking the south extremity of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The point separates the termini of Zheravna Glacier to the wes ...

, and 2.7 km east of Razgrad Peak (Bulgarian survey Tangra 2004/05 and mapping in 2009).

Map

* L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.

Notes

References

Viskyar Ridge.
SCAR

Composite Antarctic Gazetteer The Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (CGA) of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) is the authoritative international gazetteer containing all Antarctic toponyms published in national gazetteers, plus basic information about t ...

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

Viskyar Ridge.
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