Zaldapa Ridge

Location of Trinity Peninsula.

Zaldapa Ridge (Bulgarian: рид Залдапа, ‘Rid Zaldapa’ \'rid zal-'da-pa\) is the predominantly ice-free ridge extending 4.6 km in east-west direction and 1.7 km wide on Yatrus Promontory in Graham Land, Antarctica, with its twin rocky summits rising to 383 (the west one) and 359 m respectively.

The ridge is named “after the ancient Thracian and Roman town of Zaldapa in Northeastern Bulgaria”.^[1]

Location

The summit of Zaldapa Ridge is located at 63°36′30″S 57°41′34″W / 63.60833°S 57.69278°W / -63.60833; -57.69278Coordinates: 63°36′30″S 57°41′34″W / 63.60833°S 57.69278°W / -63.60833; -57.69278, which is 4.55 km east-northeast of McCalman Peak, 7.06 km south of Abel Nunatak and 4.75 km west by south of Jade Point. German-British mapping in 1996.

Map

Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.

References

↑ Zaldapa Ridge. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.

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