Pleven Saddle is a deep saddle of elevation 500 m in Friesland Ridge

Friesland Ridge

Friesland Ridge is a ridge on Livingston Island in the South Shetlands, part of the Tangra Mountains. The summit, Mount Friesland, which rises to , is the northwesternmost of the ridge’s six main peaks...

, Tangra Mountains

Tangra Mountains

Tangra Mountains form the principal mountain range of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica...

, Livingston Island, Antarctica, bounded by MacKay Peak

MacKay Peak

MacKay Peak is an ice-covered pyramidal peak rising to 700 m in the Friesland Ridge of Tangra Mountains, rises to 770 m in Friesland Ridge, Tangra Mountains, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica...

 to the west-southwest and Tervel Peak

Tervel Peak

Tervel Peak is a triple peak rising to 810 m in Friesland Ridge, Tangra Mountains on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica overlooking Peshtera Glacier and Zagore Beach to the northwest, and Charity Glacier to the southwest...

 to the east-northeast, with two conspicuous rocks rising on it. Part of the glacial divide between Peshtera Glacier

Peshtera Glacier

The Peshtera Glacier is a glacier situated on the Rozhen Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica....

 to the north and Charity Glacier

Charity Glacier

Charity Glacier is a glacier lying north of Barnard Point on Rozhen Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-names Committee in 1958 after the brig Charity Charity Glacier is a glacier lying north of Barnard Point on Rozhen...

 to the south.

The saddle was named after the 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...

n city of Pleven

Pleven

Pleven is the seventh most populous city in Bulgaria. Located in the northern part of the country, it is the administrative centre of Pleven Province, as well as of the subordinate Pleven municipality...

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Location

The saddle is centred at 62°43′12"S 60°17′24"W which is 490 m east-northeast of MacKay Peak, 1.09 km west-southwest of Tervel Peak and 1.6 km north by west of Gerov Pass

Gerov Pass

Gerov Pass is a pass of elevation 400 m in Friesland Ridge, Tangra Mountains on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Situated 1.6 km south-southeast of Pleven Saddle. Bounded by Shumen Peak to the east-northeast, and Gabrovo Knoll to the west-southwest...

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Maps

• L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.
• L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009.