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Cherepish Ridge

Cherepish Ridge (Cherepishki Rid \che-re-'pish-ki 'rid\) is a narrow rocky 1.1 kilometres (3,600 ft) ridge in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. Rising to 650 metres (2,130 ft), 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.

The ridge is located at 62°38′24.4″S 60°02′15″W / 62.640111°S 60.03750°W / -62.640111; -60.03750 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.

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


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

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