Cherepish Ridge Explained

Cherepish Ridge (Cherepishki Rid \che-re-'pish-ki 'rid\) is a narrow rocky 1.1km (00.7miles) ridge in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. Rising to 650m (2,130feet), the ridge runs in the south to north direction from the north of Intuition Peak, in the Tangra Mountains of Livingston Island. It was named after the Cherepish Monastery in the Iskar Gorge, Western Bulgaria.

Location

The ridge is located at -62.6401°N -60.0375°W which is 1.85 km north by northwest of Helmet Peak, 6.3 km east of Kuzman Knoll and 4.89 km southeast of Atanasoff Nunatak.

Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009 from the Tangra 2004/05 topographic survey.

Maps

References

External links