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Kipra Gap

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Coordinates: 77°30′10″S 85°57′20″W / 77.50278°S 85.95556°W / -77.50278; -85.95556
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Location of Sentinel Range in Western Antarctica.
Map of northern Sentinel Range.

Kipra Gap (Template:Lang-bg, ‘Sedlovina Kipra’ \se-dlo-vi-'na 'ki-pra\) is the 2.3 km long, mostly ice-covered saddle of elevation 1650 m in northern Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica connecting Mount Weems on the north to Gromshin Heights on the south.

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

Location

Kipra Gap is located at 77°30′10″S 85°57′20″W / 77.50278°S 85.95556°W / -77.50278; -85.95556, which is 12 km northeast of Skamni Saddle. US mapping in 1961.

Maps

  • Newcomer Glacier. Scale 1:250 000 topographic map. Reston, Virginia: US Geological Survey, 1961.
  • Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.

References

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


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