Location of Danco Coast on Antarctic Peninsula.

Kormyansko Saddle (Bulgarian: Кормянска седловина, ‘Kormyanska sedlovina’ \kor-'myan-ska se-dlo-vi-'na\ is the ice-covered saddle of elevation 992 m[1] in the north foothills of Herbert Plateau on Danco Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. It connects Obretenik Bastion to Egerika Range on the north, and is part of the glacial divide between Blériot Glacier to the west and Cayley Glacier to the east.

The saddle is named after the settlement of Kormyansko in Northern Bulgaria.

Location

Kormyansko Saddle is located at 64°27′44″S 61°01′12″W / 64.46222°S 61.02000°W / -64.46222; -61.02000, which is 3.7 km north of Obretenik Bastion, 7.1 km southeast of Farman Nunatak and 14 km west-southwest of Mount Berry. British mapping in 1978.

Maps

  • British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 60. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1978.
  • Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.

Notes

  1. ↑ Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica. Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019

References

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


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