Oborishte Ridge

Location of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Oborishte Ridge from near Ravda Peak, Livingston Island.
Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Oborishte Ridge (Rid Oborishte \'rid o-'bo-ri-shte\) has an elevation of 340 m in the southwest extremity of Breznik Heights, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Extending 1.7 km along the southeast coast of Yankee Harbour and 950 m wide. Ice-free surface area (together with the adjoining Provadiya Hook) 138 hectares (340 acres).[1] It surmounts Solis Glacier on the east and Wulfila Glacier on the southeast, and Yankee Harbour on the north and Doris Cove on the south.

The ridge is named after the historic site of Oborishte in central Bulgaria.

  1. ^ L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands Archived April 24, 2008, at the Wayback Machine. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4