Hazarbasanov Ridge
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Hazarbasanov Ridge is the mostly ice-free ridge extending 5.5 km, 2.4 km wide and rising to 750 m on the southwest side of 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...

 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.

The feature is named after Dobri Hazarbasanov (b. 1960), physician
Physician
A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...

 at St. Kliment Ohridski base
St. Kliment Ohridski Base
St. Kliment Ohridski Base is a Bulgarian Antarctic base on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.The base, originally known as Sofia University Refuge, was named in 1993 "for St...

 during the 1995/96 and subsequent seasons.

Location

The summit of Hazarbasanov Ridge is located at 64°15′06"S 59°10′06"W, which is 4.34 km southeast of Mount Hornsby
Mount Hornsby
Mount Hornsby is a prominent snow-capped mountain on the south side of the middle reaches of Sjogren Glacier, Trinity Peninsula. Mapped from surveys by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey...

, 6.57 km south of Survakari Nunatak
Survakari Nunatak
Survakari Nunatak is the rocky hill rising to 600 m in upper Sjögren Glacier, in the southeast foothills of Detroit Plateau on southern Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica....

, 8.51 km west-southwest of Vetrovala Peak
Vetrovala Peak
Vetrovala Peak is the rocky peak rising to 800 m in the south part of Aldomir Ridge on southern Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. It is situated at the head of Sjögren Inlet between the termini of Sjögren and Boydell Glaciers....

 and 6.4 km northwest of Draka Nunatak
Draka Nunatak
Draka Nunatak is the lens-shaped rocky ridge extending 4.2 km and 1.9 km wide, with twin heights rising to 750 m on the southwest coast of Sjögren Inlet on southern Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica....

.

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