Aldomir Ridge
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Aldomir Ridge is the mostly ice-free ridge on southern Trinity Peninsula
Trinity Peninsula
Trinity Peninsula is the extreme northern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, extending northeastward for about from a line connecting Cape Kjellman and Cape Longing. Dating back more than a century, chartmakers used various names for this portion of the Antarctic peninsula, each name having some...

 in Graham Land
Graham Land
Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...

, Antarctica, bounded by Sjögren Glacier
Sjogren Glacier
Sjogren Glacier is a glacier 12.5 miles long in the south part of Trinity Peninsula, flowing southeast from Detroit Plateau to enter Prince Gustav Channel at the head of Sjögren Inlet, south of the terminus of Boydell Glacier. Discovered in 1903 by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition under...

 to the west and Boydell Glacier
Boydell Glacier
Boydell Glacier is a glacier on Trinity Peninsula in northern Graham Land. It is about long, flowing southeastward from Detroit Plateau to enter Sjögren Inlet in Prince Gustav Channel north of the terminus of Sjögren Glacier and west of Mount Wild...

 to the east. It extends 14 km between Detroit Plateau
Detroit Plateau
Detroit Plateau is a major interior plateau of Graham Land, with heights between 1,500 and 1,800 m. Its northeast limit is marked by the south wall of Russell West Glacier, from which it extends some in a general southwest direction to Herbert Plateau. The plateau was observed from the air by...

 to the north-northwest and Sjögren Inlet
Sjögren Inlet
Sjögren Inlet is an inlet exposed following the retreat of Sjögren Glacier, approximately 17 km long, running east-southeast from the base of Sjögren Glacier, Trinity Peninsula, into Prince Gustav Channel, north of Longing Peninsula. Entered south of Mount Wild. The inlet is named in...

 to the south-southeast, and is 4.2 km wide and rising to 1350 m at its north extremity.

The ridge is named after the settlement of Aldomirovtsi
Aldomirovtsi
Aldomirovtsi is a village in Slivnitsa municipality, Sofia Province, in western Bulgaria approximately 36 km from Sofia.-See also:* Slivnitsa* Aldomirovtsi marsh...

in Western Bulgaria.

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