Egerika Range

Egerika Range (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Egerika Range  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Place ID: 19555
Name ID: 137927

Feature type: Range (2c)

Origin

This name originates from Bulgaria. It is part of the Bulgaria Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Narrative

The mostly ice-covered range extending 16.2 km in S-N direction and 7 km wide, rising to 1200 m in the N foothills of Herbert Plateau on Danco Coast in Graham Land. Connected to Obretenik Bastion to the S by Kormyansko Saddle. Surmounts Bl‚riot Glacier to the W, Hughes Bay to the NW and Cayley Glacier to the E. British mapping in 1978. Named after the Thracian settlement of Egerika in Western Bulgaria.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
64° 23' 20.0" S
-64.38889°
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Longitude:
61° 02' 15.0" W
-61.03750°
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Altitude:
1200 m
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Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
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Source Name:
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Source Scale:
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Source Institution:
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Source Person:
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Source Publisher:
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Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
21-Nov-2014

Related information

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