Prelez Gap is the flat ice-covered saddle of elevation over 700 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 Marescot Ridge

Marescot Ridge

Marescot Ridge is a ridge consisting of numerous ice-covered hills, the highest being Crown Peak at the south end of the ridge. Located 2 nautical miles inland from Marescot Point along the northwest coast of Trinity Peninsula...

 to the northwest to Louis-Philippe Plateau to the southeast. It is overlooking the upper course of Malorad Glacier

Malorad Glacier

Malorad Glacier is the 14 km long and 10.5 km wide glacier on Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula. Situated northeast of Hanson Hill, north of Srednogorie Heights, northwest of Louis-Philippe Plateau and southwest of Marescot Ridge...

to the west.

The gap is named after the settlement of Prelez in Northeastern Bulgaria.

Location

Prelez Gap is centred at 63°34′30"S 58°32′00"W. German-British mapping in 1996.

Map

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