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Pleven Saddle

Pleven Saddle (Plevenska Sedlovina \'ple-ven-ska se-dlo-vi-'na) is a deep saddle of elevation 500 m in Friesland Ridge, Tangra Mountains, Livingston Island, Antarctica, bounded by MacKay Peak to the west-southwest and Tervel Peak to the east-northeast, with two conspicuous rocks rising on it. Part of the glacial divide between Peshtera Glacier to the north and Charity Glacier to the south.

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The saddle was named after the Bulgarian city of Pleven.

Location

The saddle is centred at 62°43′12″S 60°17′24″W which is 490 m east-northeast of MacKay Peak, 1.09 km west-southwest of Tervel Peak and 1.6 km north by west of Gerov Pass.

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.

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    Pleven Saddle Wikipedia
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