Tsarevets Buttress (Bulgarian: рид Царевец, ‘Rid Tsarevets’ \'rid tsa-'re-vets\) is the rounded ice-covered buttress extending 7 km (4.3 mi) in north-south direction and 7 km (4.3 mi) in east-west direction, rising to 1868 m[1] on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. It is situated on the northwest side of Detroit Plateau, and is connected to Korten Ridge on the west-northwest by Podvis Col. The feature has steep and partly ice-free southwest, north and east slopes, surmounting Temple Glacier to the southwest, Sabine Glacier to the northwest and Whitecloud Glacier to the north-northeast and east.
The buttress is named after Tsarevets Hill in the city of Veliko Tarnovo, the seat of the Bulgarian royal court in the 12th–14th centuries.
Location edit
Tsarevets Buttress is located at 63°58′50″S 59°40′10″W / 63.98056°S 59.66944°W, which is 20 km southeast of Wennersgaard Point. German-British mapping in 1996.
Maps edit
- Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.
- Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.
Notes edit
- ^ Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica. Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019
References edit
- Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
- Tsarevets Buttress. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
External links edit
- Tsarevets Buttress. Copernix satellite image
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.
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