Balan Ridge is the ridge rising to 800 m in Sofia University Mountains

Sofia University Mountains

Sofia University Mountains are a cluster of three small mountains, 14 km long in the north-south direction and 5.5 km wide, rising to 1500 m in north-western Alexander Island.They are located south-southeast of Havre Mountains, southwest of Rouen Mountains, northwest of Elgar Uplands, east...

 on Alexander Island

Alexander Island

Alexander Island or Alexander I Island or Alexander I Land or Alexander Land is the largest island of Antarctica, with an area of lying in the Bellingshausen Sea west of the base of the Antarctic Peninsula, from which it is separated by Marguerite Bay and George VI Sound. Alexander Island lies off...

 in Antarctica. The ridge is situated 7 km north by east of Mount Kliment Ohridski

Mount Kliment Ohridski

Mount Kliment Ohridski is the highest ridge in the Sofia University Mountains on Alexander Island, Antarctica. The feature extends 7 km in the northwest-southeast direction with partly ice-free southern slopes...

, extending 4.5 km in north-south direction, 1.45 km wide, and is bounded by Poste Valley to the east, by Palestrina Glacier

Palestrina Glacier

Palestrina Glacier is a glacier in the north part of Alexander Island, 11 nautical miles long and 8 nautical miles wide, flowing west from Nichols Snowfield into Lazarev Bay. Mapped from air photos taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition , 1947–48, by Searle of the Falkland Islands...

 to the north and its tributary Yozola Glacier

Yozola Glacier

Yozola Glacier is the 5 km long and 1.7 km wide glacier in Sofia University Mountains on Alexander Island in Antarctica draining north-northwestwards between Mount Braun and Balan Ridge to flow into Palestrina Glacier....

 to the west.

Balan Ridge is named for the Bulgarian linguist, historian

Historian

A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. If the individual is...

 and bibliographer

Bibliographer

"A bibliographer is a person who describes and lists books and other publications, with particular attention to such characteristics as authorship, publication date, edition, typography, etc. The result of this endeavor is a bibliography...

 Aleksandar Teodorov-Balan

Aleksandar Teodorov-Balan

Aleksandar Stoyanov Teodorov-Balan was a Bulgarian linguist, historian and bibliographer.Balan was born in the Bessarabian village of Kubey, today Chervonoarmiyske near Bolhrad in Odessa Oblast, Ukraine , to a Bulgarian family. The general Georgi Todorov was his brother...

 (1859-1959), first rector of Sofia University

Sofia University

The St. Clement of Ohrid University of Sofia or Sofia University is the oldest higher education institution in Bulgaria, founded on 1 October 1888...

 and one of the founders of the tourist movement

Tourism

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 in Bulgaria

Bulgaria

Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

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Maps

• British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map No. 3127. DOS 610 - W 69 70. Tolworth, UK, 1971.
• Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993-2006.