Cherepish Ridge

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Location of Tangra Mountains on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.

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Cherepish Ridge from Zemen Knoll in Vidin Heights.

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Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Cherepish Ridge (Cherepishki Rid \che-re-'pish-ki 'rid\) is a narrow rocky Template:Convert ridge in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. Rising to Template:Convert, the ridge runs in the south to north direction from the north of Intuition Peak, in the Tangra Mountains of Livingston Island. It was named after the Cherepish Monastery in the Iskar Gorge, Western Bulgaria.

Location

The ridge is located at Template:Coord which 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. Template:ISBN
• A. Kamburov and L. Ivanov. Bowles Ridge and Central Tangra Mountains: Livingston Island, Antarctica. Scale 1:25000 map. Sofia: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2023. Template:ISBN

References

• Cherepish Ridge. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
• Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)

External links

• Cherepish Ridge. Copernix satellite image

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