Tsarevets Buttress

Tsarevets Buttress (Bulgarian: рид Царевец, ‘Rid Tsarevets’ \'rid tsa-'re-vets\) is the rounded ice-covered buttress extending 7 km in north-south direction and 7 km in east-west direction, rising to 1868 m^[1] on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. It is situated on the northwest side of Detroit Plateau, and is connected to Korten Ridge on the west-northwest by Podvis Col. The feature has steep and partly ice-free southwest, north and east slopes, surmounting Temple Glacier to the southwest, Sabine Glacier to the northwest and Whitecloud Glacier to the north-northeast and east.

The buttress is named after Tsarevets Hill in the city of Veliko Tarnovo, the seat of the Bulgarian royal court in the 12th-14th centuries.

Location[]

Tsarevets Buttress is located at

63°58′50″S 59°40′10″W / 63.98056°S 59.66944°W / -63.98056; -59.66944Coordinates: 63°58′50″S 59°40′10″W / 63.98056°S 59.66944°W / -63.98056; -59.66944, which is 20 km southeast of Wennersgaard Point. German-British mapping in 1996.

Maps[]

• Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.
• Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.

Notes[]

References[]

• Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
• Tsarevets Buttress. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer

External links[]

• Tsarevets Buttress. Copernix satellite image

This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.