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Tipits Knoll (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Tipits Knoll (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Knoll
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 800 m in N-S direction and 470 m wide, rising to 1000 m and forming the S extremity of Sofia University Mountains in northern Alexander Island. Situated 3.12 km SE of Mount Kliment Ohridski, 7.33 km SW of Vola Ridge, 4.23 km WNW of Shaw Nunatak and 8.22 km NE of Mount Devol in Lassus Mountains. Surmounts Nichols Snowfield to the SE. Visited on 2 February 1988 by the geological team of Christo Pimpirev and Borislav Kamenov (First Bulgarian Antarctic Expedition), and Philip Nell and Peter Marquis (British Antarctic Survey). British mapping in 1971.
Named after Tipits Peak in Pirin Mountains.
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