Friesland Ridge
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Friesland Ridge (Hrebet Frisland \'hre-bet 'fris-land\) is a ridge on Livingston Island in the South Shetlands, part of the Tangra Mountains. The summit, Mount Friesland, which rises to 1,700m, is the northwesternmost of the ridge’s six main peaks. (The summit elevation was estimated at 1684 m by a 1995/96 Bulgarian survey; the present figure was produced by a 2003 Australian GPS survey, and confirmed by the Bulgarian survey Tangra 2004/05.)
The feature takes its name from Mount Friesland.
[edit] Location
The midpoint of the ridge is located at (UK Directorate of Overseas Surveys mapping in 1968, partial mapping by the Spanish Servicio Geográfico del Ejército in 1991, and Bulgarian mapping in 2005 from topographic surveys in 1995/96 and 2004/05).
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This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.
