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Tile Ridge

Tile Ridge (Rid Tile /ˈrid ˈti.le/) is a partly ice-free ridge of elevation 240 m in Dryanovo Heights, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.

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The ridge is named after the ancient Tile (Tylis), capital town of the Celtic Kingdom in Thrace, 279–213 BC, and ancestor of the present Bulgarian settlement of Tulovo near Stara Zagora City.

Location

The ridge is located at 62°29′58″S 59°50′57″W, which is 2.3 km east-southeast of Lloyd Hill, 2.55 km north of Triangle Point, and 2.37 km west of Malamir Knoll (Bulgarian topographic survey Tangra 2004/05 and mapping in 2009).

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
  • References

    Tile Ridge Wikipedia