Ohoden Col
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Ohoden Col is the ice-covered col of elevation over 900 m extending 950 m on Trinity Peninsula
Trinity Peninsula
Trinity Peninsula is the extreme northern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, extending northeastward for about from a line connecting Cape Kjellman and Cape Longing. Dating back more than a century, chartmakers used various names for this portion of the Antarctic peninsula, each name having some...

 in Graham Land
Graham Land
Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...

, Antarctica, which is linking Ivory Pinnacles
Ivory Pinnacles
The Ivory Pinnacles are a pair of ice-covered peaks on the west side of Pettus Glacier, 9 miles southeast of Cape Kjellman, in northern Graham Land. It was charted in 1948 by members of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey who applied the descriptive name....

 to the north to Detroit Plateau
Detroit Plateau
Detroit Plateau is a major interior plateau of Graham Land, with heights between 1,500 and 1,800 m. Its northeast limit is marked by the south wall of Russell West Glacier, from which it extends some in a general southwest direction to Herbert Plateau. The plateau was observed from the air by...

 to the south. It is surmounting Pettus Glacier
Pettus Glacier
Pettus Glacier is a narrow deeply entrenched glacier 9 nautical miles long, which flows north from Ebony Wall into Gavin Ice Piedmont between Poynter Hill and Tinsel Dome, Trinity Peninsula. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Robert N...

to the east.

The col is named after the settlement of Ohoden in Northwestern Bulgaria.

Location

Ohoden Col is centred at 63°50′31"S 59°11′35"W. German-British mapping in 1996.

Map

  • Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.
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