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Cherepish Ridge

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

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Location

The ridge is located at 62°38′24.4″S 60°02′15″Wwhich 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

  • 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.
  • L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4

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