Ritli Hill
Appearance
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Livingston-Island-location-map.png/220px-Livingston-Island-location-map.png)
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Ritli Hill (Bulgarian: хълм Ритли, ‘Halm Ritli’ \'h&lm 'rit-li\) is a rocky hill rising to 45 m on the south coast of western Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It surmounts Juturna Lake on the west. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers.
The hill is named after the rock formation of Ritlite in western Bulgaria.
Location
[edit]Ritli Hill is located at 62°40′16″S 60°55′06″W / 62.67111°S 60.91833°W, which is 700 m east of Rish Point and 600 m southwest of Clark Nunatak (Spanish mapping in 1993).
Maps
[edit]- Península Byers, Isla Livingston. Mapa topográfico a escala 1:25000. Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército, 1992.
- L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4
References
[edit]- Ritli Hill. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
- Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
External links
[edit]- Ritli Hill. Copernix satellite image
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.