Cherepish Ridge (Cherepishki Rid \che-re-'pish-ki 'rid\) is a narrow rocky ridge in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. Rising to , the ridge runs in the south to north direction from the north of Intuition Peak, in the Tangra Mountains of Livingston Island. It was named after the Cherepish Monastery in the Iskar Gorge, Western Bulgaria.

Location

The ridge is located at which is 1.85 km north by northwest of Helmet Peak, 6.3 km east of Kuzman Knoll and 4.89 km southeast of Atanasoff Nunatak.

Cherepish Ridge

Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009 from the Tangra 2004/05 topographic survey.

Cherepish Ridge

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. A. Kamburov and L. Ivanov. Bowles Ridge and Central Tangra Mountains: Livingston Island, Antarctica. Scale 1:25000 map. Sofia: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2023.

Cherepish Ridge

References

Cherepish Ridge. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica

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

External links

Cherepish Ridge. Copernix satellite image

Tangra Mountains

Ridges of Antarctica