Prelez Gap

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Location of Trinity Peninsula.

Prelez Gap (Bulgarian: седловина Прелез, ‘Sedlovina Prelez’ \se-dlo-vi-'na 'pre-lez\) is the flat ice-covered saddle of elevation over 700 m on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica, which is linking Marescot Ridge to the northwest to Louis-Philippe Plateau to the southeast. It is overlooking the upper course of Malorad Glacier 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 / 63.57500°S 58.53333°W / -63.57500; -58.53333Coordinates: 63°34′30″S 58°32′00″W / 63.57500°S 58.53333°W / -63.57500; -58.53333. German-British mapping in 1996.

Map

Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.

References

SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

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

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