Oborishte Ridge
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Breznik Heights
Breznik Heights rises to over 600 m in the southeast part of Greenwich Island. They extend 12 km between Santa Cruz Point in the north east and the base of the moraine spit at the mouth of Yankee Harbour in the southwest...
, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands
South Shetland Islands
The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands, lying about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, with a total area of . By the Antarctic Treaty of 1959, the Islands' sovereignty is neither recognized nor disputed by the signatories and they are free for use by any signatory for...
, Antarctica. Extending 1.7 km along the southeast coast of Yankee Harbour and 950 m wide. Ice-free surface area (together with the adjoining Provadiya Hook
Provadiya Hook
Provadiya Hook is a gravel barrier spit separating the inner Yankee Harbour in Greenwich Island, Antarctica from the outer Shopski Cove and McFarlane Strait...
) 138 hectares (341 acre). Surmounting Solis Glacier
Solis Glacier
Solis Glacier is a glacier on Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica extending 2.8 km in southeast-northwest direction and 1.8 km in southwest-northeast direction and draining the north slopes of Breznik Heights to flow northwestwards into Yankee Harbour.The feature...
to the east and Wulfila Glacier
Wulfila Glacier
Wulfila Glacier is located on the southern slopes of Breznik Heights, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and is bounded by Oborishte Ridge to the northwest, Nevlya Peak to the north, Terter Peak and Razgrad Peak to the northeast, and Ephraim Bluff to the southeast...
to the southeast.
The ridge is named after the historic site of Oborishte
Oborishte
Oborishte is a village located in the Panagyurishte municipality, Pazardzhik Province, western Bulgaria. It is relatively big and has 1,307 inhabitants. Its old name until 1950 was Mechka, which in Bulgarian language means bear.-Geography:...
in central Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
.
Location
The summit of the ridge is located at 62°32′05"S 59°45′04"W which is 2.17 km southeast of Spit PointSpit Point
Spit Point is the east tip of the 5 nautical miles long Elephant Spit, a conspicuous spit at the eastern end of Heard Island. The feature was charted by early American sealers at Heard Island in the years following initiation of sealing operations there in 1855. The descriptive name was...
, 2.54 km north-northwest of the summit of Ephraim Bluff
Ephraim Bluff
Ephraim Bluff is a 425 m ice-free bluff in the south of Breznik Heights, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The bluff is linked to Razgrad Peak to the north-northeast and separates the termini of Wulfila Glacier to the northwest and Zheravna Glacier to the east.The feature...
and 1.77 km west-northwest of Terter Peak
Terter Peak
Terter Peak is an ice-covered peak rising to 570 m in Breznik Heights, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica surmounting Wulfila Glacier to the southwest, Solis Glacier to the northwest and Zheravna Glacier to the southeast.-Location:The peak is located at which is 740 m...
(Bulgarian topographic survey Tangra 2004/05
Tangra 2004/05
The Tangra 2004/05 Expedition was commissioned by the Antarctic Place-names Commission at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria, managed by the Manfred Wörner Foundation, and supported by the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute, the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy...
and mapping in 2009).