Osikovo Ridge

Location of Loubet Coast on the Antarctic Peninsula.

Osikovo Ridge (Bulgarian: Осиковски рид, ‘Osikovski Rid’ \o-si-'kov-ski 'rid\) is the ice-covered ridge extending 12 km in south-southeast to north-northwest direction and 3 km wide, with a northern height rising to 1644 and southern one to 2009 m[1] at the head of Darbel Bay on Loubet Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. It surmounts McCance Glacier to the west and Widdowson Glacier to the east.

The ridge is named after the settlements of Osikovo in Northeastern, Southern and Southwestern Bulgaria.

  1. ^ Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica. Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019