Gurev Gap

Location of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Gurev Gap from Miziya Peak, with Leslie Hill in the foreground, and in the background Burdick Ridge on the left and Hurd Ice Cap on the right.
Topographic map of central-eastern Livingston Island featuring Gurev Gap.
Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Gurev Gap (Gureva Sedlovina \'gu-re-va se-dlo-vi-'na\) is a flat ice-covered saddle of elevation 450 m extending 3 km in south-north direction between Hemus Peak and Gleaner Heights in eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The gap separates the glacial catchments of Kaliakra Glacier to the east, and Saedinenie Snowfield and Perunika Glacier to the west. It is part of the overland route from the St. Kliment Ohridski Base via the Balkan Snowfield, Rezen Saddle and Perunika Glacier to Varna Peninsula. The saddle was first trekked on 24 December 2004 by the Tangra 2004/05 Survey team from Camp Academia, and was named for Vasil Gurev, physicist at St. Kliment Ohridski in 1994/95 and subsequent seasons.