Mount Kliment Ohridski (, ) is the highest ridge (1422m) in the Sofia University Mountains on Alexander Island, Antarctica. The feature extends 7 km in the northwest–southeast direction with partly ice-free southern slopes. Shaw Nunatak is located in Nichols Snowfield 4 km off the southeast extremity of Mount Kliment Ohridski.

Following field work in northern Alexander Island by a joint British-Bulgarian party during the summer of 1987–88, the peak was named for Clement of Ohrid in association with the St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia.

Mount Kliment Ohridski

Location

The peak is located at which is 8.7 km northeast of Mount Devol, 7.15 km east-southeast of Mount Wilbye and 9.12 km south of the summit of Balan Ridge (British mapping of the area from air photos taken by the 1947-48 US Expedition under Ronne).

Mount Kliment Ohridski

Maps

British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map No. 3127. DOS 610 - W 69 70. Tolworth, UK, 1971. Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.

Mount Kliment Ohridski

Notes

References

Mount Kliment Ohridski. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica

Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)

External links

Mount Kliment Ohridski. Copernix satellite image

Mountains of Alexander Island

Ridges of Alexander Island

Bulgaria and the Antarctic