Zvegor Saddle

Zvegor Saddle (Bulgarian: Звегорска седловина, romanized: Zvegorska Sedlovina \'zve-gor-ska se-dlo-vi-'na\) is the saddle of elevation 2500 m between Eyer Peak and Mount Press in Probuda Ridge, north-central Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains. It is surmounting Embree Glacier to the north-northwest and Ellen Glacier to the southeast.

Location of Sentinel Range in Western Antarctica.

Sentinel Range map.

The saddle is named after the settlement of Zvegor in Northeastern Bulgaria.

Location

Zvegor Saddle is centred at 78°08′51″S 85°59′31″W, which is 840 m north of Eyer Peak, 5.19 km northeast of Mount Anderson, 4.31 km east by north of Mount Bentley, 3.66 km south-southwest of Mount Press and 6.5 km south-southwest of Mount Todd. US mapping in 1961, updated in 1988.

Maps

• Vinson Massif. Scale 1:250 000 topographic map. Reston, Virginia: US Geological Survey, 1988.
• Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly updated.

References

• Zvegor Saddle. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
• Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)

External links

• Zvegor Saddle. Copernix satellite image

This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.