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Piyanets Ridge (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Piyanets 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 and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
The upturned V-shaped, mostly ice-free ridge extending 5.6 km in N-S direction, 2.4 km wide and rising to 1000 m in Havre Mountains, northern Alexander Island. Situated 4.55 km NE of the coastal point formed by Hopkins Ridge, 3.77 km SE of Gazey Nunatak and 9.2 km NW of Mount Holt. Surmounts Kolokita Cove to the SW. British mapping in 1971.
Named after the region of Piyanets in Western Bulgaria.
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