Pliska Ridge
Pliska Ridge is a three-peaked ridge rising to 2,188 feet above sea level in the eastern part of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, in the British Antarctic Territory.
The central and highest summit of the ridge is a mile and a half east-northeast of Willan Nunatak (1,473 feet), one mile south-east of the summit of the Burdick Ridge (2,536 feet), 3.53 km south-southwest of Mount Bowles, and two miles north-west of the island's highest mountain, Mount Friesland.
The ridge is a mile long and 500 yards wide, its axis trending due east-west, with precipitous southern slopes. It is ice-covered except for segments of its easternmost peak (2,119 feet) and is bounded to the northwest by Orpheus Gate, to the north by the head of Perunika Glacier, to the east by Nesebar Gap, and to the south and west by the head of Huntress Glacier, the latter flowing 6 km southwestwards into False Bay.
The first ascent was by the Bulgarian Lyubomir Ivanov on 18 December 2004.
The ridge was named by the Bulgarian Antarctic Expedition, after the village of Pliska in north-eastern Bulgaria, which in the seventh century became the capital of the First Bulgarian Empire.
Location
- Location map: 62°38’45"S, 60°14’5"W
- Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Pliska Ridge