Popovo Saddle

Location of Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands.

Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Popovo Saddle (Bulgarian: Поповска седловина, ‘Popovska Sedlovina’ \'po-pov-ska se-dlo-vi-'na\) is the saddle of elevation 1550 m in Imeon Range on Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica bounded by Drinov Peak to the north and Sevlievski Peak to the south. Overlooking Ovech Glacier to the east and Chuprene Glacier to the southwest.

The saddle is named after the town of Popovo in northeastern Bulgaria.

Location

Popovo Saddle is located at 62°57′34″S 62°29′24″W / 62.95944°S 62.49000°W / -62.95944; -62.49000Coordinates: 62°57′34″S 62°29′24″W / 62.95944°S 62.49000°W / -62.95944; -62.49000. Bulgarian mapping in 2009.

Map

• L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4

References

• Popovo Saddle. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

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