Dropla Gap is the flat, ice-covered saddle of elevation 850 m in north-central Sentinel Range

Sentinel Range

The Sentinel Range is a major mountain range situated northward of Minnesota Glacier and forming the northern half of the Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica. The range trends NNW-SSE for about and is 24 to 48 km wide...

 in Ellsworth Mountains

Ellsworth Mountains

The Ellsworth Mountains are the highest mountain ranges in Antarctica, forming a long and wide chain of mountains in a north to south configuration on the western margin of the Ronne Ice Shelf. They are bisected by Minnesota Glacier to form the northern Sentinel Range and the southern Heritage...

, Antarctica, extending 1.35 km to link Maglenik Heights

Maglenik Heights

Maglenik Heights are the heights rising to 2980 m in north-central Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica, extending 26 km in north-south direction and 20 km in east-west direction They are bounded by Ellen Glacier to the south and west, Embree Glacier and Kopsis Glacier to the north,...

 to the west and Barnes Ridge

Barnes Ridge

Barnes Ridge is a ridge rising to over and long, extending between Young Glacier and Ellen Glacier at the east side of the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica. Bounded by Rutford Ice Stream to the east and Arapya Glacier to the west....

 to the east. It is part of the glacial divide between Young Glacier

Young Glacier

Young Glacier is a glacier which flows east for 8 miles and terminates at the north end of Barnes Ridge on the east side of Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains. First mapped by United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1957-59. Named by Advisory Committee on...

 to the north and Arapya Glacier

Arapya Glacier

Arapya Glacier , is the 11.4 km long and 5 km wide glacier on the east side of north-central Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica, situated south of Young Glacier...

 to the south.

The gap is named after the settlements of Dropla in Northeastern

Dropla, Dobrich Province

Dropla, Dobrich Province is a village in Balchik Municipality, Dobrich Province, northeastern Bulgaria....

 and Southeastern

Dropla, Burgas Province

Dropla, Burgas Province is a village in the municipality of Ruen, in Burgas Province, in southeastern Bulgaria....

 Bulgaria.
Location=

Dropla Gap is centred at 78°08′15"S 84°58′20"W. US mapping in 1961, updated in 1988.

Maps

• Vinson Massif. Scale 1:250 000 topographic map. Reston, Virginia: US Geological Survey, 1988.