Ilarion Ridge
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Breznik Heights
Breznik Heights rises to over 600 m in the southeast part of Greenwich Island. They extend 12 km between Santa Cruz Point in the north east and the base of the moraine spit at the mouth of Yankee Harbour in the southwest...
on Greenwich Island, Antarctica. Extending along the south coast of Hardy Cove, 2 km southwest of Parchevich Ridge
Parchevich Ridge
Parchevich Ridge is a partly ice-free ridge of elevation 370 m situated in Breznik Heights north of Hardy Cove, 690 m south of Benkovski Nunatak, and 1.7 km southwest of Santa Cruz Point on Greenwich Island, Antarctica. Surmounting Hardy Cove to the southwest and Gruev Cove to the...
, 1.9 km east-northeast of Lyutitsa Nunatak
Lyutitsa Nunatak
Lyutitsa Nunatak is a rocky peak of elevation 430 m projecting from the ice cap in Breznik Heights on Greenwich Island, Antarctica. Overlooking Musala Glacier to the north, east, and south...
, 2.5 km northeast of Vratsa Peak
Vratsa Peak
Vratsa Peak is a sharp rocky peak rising to 470 m in Breznik Heights, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica surmounting Musala Glacier to the northeast and Targovishte Glacier to the southwest and south....
, 1.3 km north of St. Kiprian Peak
St. Kiprian Peak
St. Kiprian Peak is a rocky peak of elevation 270 m in the southeast extremity of Breznik Heights on Greenwich Island, Antarctica. Situated 1.54 km east of Vratsa Peak, 1.7 km south of Ilarion Ridge, 1.63 km west of Fort Point, and 800 m northeast of Kormesiy Peak. Overlooking...
, and 2.6 km north-northwest of Fort Point
Fort Point (Greenwich Island)
Fort Point is a conspicuous rocky point rising to 85 m and linked by a low 700 m isthmus to the southeast coast of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The feature's name is descriptive, replacing the earlier version 'Castle Rock'....
. Overlooking Musala Glacier
Musala Glacier
Musala Glacier on Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is bounded by St. Kiprian Peak to the south, Vratsa Peak to the southwest, central Breznik Heights to the west, and Ilarion Ridge bordering Hardy Cove to the northeast...
to the south. Bulgarian topographic survey Tangra 2004/05
Tangra 2004/05
The Tangra 2004/05 Expedition was commissioned by the Antarctic Place-names Commission at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria, managed by the Manfred Wörner Foundation, and supported by the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute, the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy...
. Named after Metropolitan
Metropolitan bishop
In Christian churches with episcopal polity, the rank of metropolitan bishop, or simply metropolitan, pertains to the diocesan bishop or archbishop of a metropolis; that is, the chief city of a historical Roman province, ecclesiastical province, or regional capital.Before the establishment of...
Ilarion Makariopolski
Ilarion Makariopolski
Ilarion Makariopolski , born Stoyan Stoyanov Mihaylovski was a 19th-century Bulgarian cleric and one of the leaders of the struggle for an autonomous Bulgarian church....
(1812-75), a leading figure in the restoration of the autocephalous Bulgarian Church
Bulgarian Orthodox Church
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church - Bulgarian Patriarchate is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Church with some 6.5 million members in the Republic of Bulgaria and between 1.5 and 2.0 million members in a number of European countries, the Americas and Australia...
in 1870.
Maps
- L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.
- L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4
