Avroleva Heights
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Avroleva Heights ({{langx|bg|Възвишения Авролева|Vazvisheniya Avroleva}}) are the mostly ice-covered heights rising to 1137 m (Opizo Peak)[https://livingatlas2.arcgis.com/antarcticdemexplorer/ Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica.] Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019 on the east coast of Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. They extend 7.3 km in north-south direction from Hill Bay to Svetovrachene Glacier, and 7.3 km in east-west direction from Mitchell Point to Doriones Saddle, which saddle connects the heights to Taran Plateau in Stribog Mountains. The heights have steep and partly ice-free north and east slopes.
Avroleva is the medieval name of a mountain in Southeastern Bulgaria.
Location
Avroleva Heights are centred at {{coord|64|13|10|S|62|08|50|W|display=inline,title}}. British mapping in 1980 and 2008.
Maps
- [http://www.add.scar.org Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).] Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20141209160123/https://www1.data.antarctica.gov.au/aadc/mapcat/display_map.cfm?map_id=3217 British Antarctic Territory.] Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 62. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1980.
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20170703122914/https://data.aad.gov.au/database/mapcat/british/brabant_argentine_is_BAS_map13489.jpg Brabant Island to Argentine Islands.] Scale 1:250000 topographic map. British Antarctic Survey, 2008.
Notes
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References
- [http://apcbg.org/gazet-bg.pdf Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.] Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, [http://apcbg.org/gazet.pdf basic data] in English)
- [https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/gaz/scar/display_name.cfm?gaz_id=137969 Avroleva Heights.] SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
External links
- [https://copernix.io/#?where=-62.14657826983643,-64.22036790105204,13&?query=&?map_type=hybrid Avroleva Heights.] Copernix satellite image
File:Brabant-Island.png (on the right) and Antarctic Peninsula in the background; Avroleva Heights are seen on the near side of the left part of the island.]]
{{Bulgarian-named Antarctic place}}
Category:Mountains of the Palmer Archipelago
Category:Bulgaria and the Antarctic
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