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Sonketa Ridge (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Sonketa Ridge (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Ridge (2d)
This name originates from Bulgaria. It is part of the Bulgaria Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
The mostly ice-covered ridge extending 11.5 km in E-W direction and 4 km wide, rising to 1100 m in the W foothills of Detroit Plateau and partly on Relyovo Peninsula on Danco Coast in Graham Land. Connected to the NW slopes of Razhana Buttress to the E by Zhelad Saddle. Surmounts Sikorsky Glacier to the N and Trepetlika Glacier to the S. British mapping in 1978. Sonketa is a Thracian place name from Western Bulgaria.
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