Feature in South Shetland Islands, Antartica
Location of Tangra Mountains on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Delchev Ridge from
Bransfield Strait , with (left to right)
Kuber Peak ,
Delchev Peak and
Elena Peak , and
Greenwich Island in the background.
Fieldwork on
Melnik Peak , with Delchev Ridge in the background.
Kaloyan Nunatak from
Bransfield Strait , with
Pautalia Glacier in the foreground.
Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.
Delchev Ridge (Delchev Hrebet \'del-chev 'hre-bet\) is the eastern ridge of the
Tangra Mountains ,
Livingston Island extending 10 km east-northeastward from
Devin Saddle to
Renier Point . The ridge is named in association with its summit
Delchev Peak (ca. 940 m).
The north slopes of the ridge between
Elena Peak and
Renier Point together with the adjacent portion of
Sopot Ice Piedmont are a popular site for
backcountry skiing and
climbing , with skiers landed by Zodiac rigid inflatable boats from cruise ships visiting the
Half Moon Island area.
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Location
The midpoint of Delchev Ridge is located at
62°37′55″S 59°54′15″W / 62.63194°S 59.90417°W / -62.63194; -59.90417 . The ridge was mapped by the UK
Directorate of Overseas Surveys in 1968, Argentine mapping in 1980 and Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009.
Delchev Ridge in popular culture
The cover of the
VA album Under Heaven: Vinson Massif (2010) actually features a photo not of
Vinson Massif but of Delchev Ridge instead, with
Mugla Passage and
Vaptsarov Peak in the foreground, and (left to right)
Elena Peak and
Delchev Peak in the background.
[3] Both the picture and the misidentification may have possibly originated in the ‘Vinson Massif’ entry of the ‘Seven Summits Quest’ website.
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See also
Maps
South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:200000 topographic map No. 3373. DOS 610 – W 62 58. Tolworth, UK, 1968.
Islas Livingston y Decepción. Mapa topográfico a escala 1:100000. Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército, 1991.
S. Soccol, D. Gildea and J. Bath.
Livingston Island, Antarctica. Scale 1:100000 satellite map. The Omega Foundation, USA, 2004.
L.L. Ivanov et al.,
Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands (from English Strait to Morton Strait, with illustrations and ice-cover distribution), 1:100000 scale topographic map,
Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, Sofia, 2005
L.L. Ivanov.
Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2010.
ISBN
978-954-92032-9-5 (First edition 2009.
ISBN
978-954-92032-6-4 )
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.
Notes
References
External links
This article includes information from the
Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.