Pliska Ridge [SEP] continent
Pliska Ridge
Pliska Ridge (Vrah Pliska \'vr&h 'pli-ska\) is a three-peaked ridge rising to 667 m in eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Its central and highest summit, "Pliska Peak", is located 2.48 km east-northeast of Willan Nunatak (449 m), 1.81 km southeast of Burdick Peak (773 m, summit of Burdick Ridge), 3.53 km south-southwest of Mount Bowles, 3.68 km west-southwest of Kuzman Knoll,
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First ascent by the Bulgarian Lyubomir Ivanov from Camp Academia on 18 December 2004.
Pliska is the name of a settlement in north-eastern Bulgaria, which in the seventh century became the capital of the First Bulgarian Empire.
Location.
The summit Pliska Peak of the ridge is located at (Rough British mapping in 1968, detailed Spanish mapping in 1991, Bulgarian mapping in 1996, 2005 and 2009 from topographic surveys in 1995/96 and 2004/05).
Maps.
- Isla Livingston: Península Hurd.