Balan Ridge (, ‘Hrebet Balan’ \'hre-bet ba-'lan\) is the ridge rising in its southern part to Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica.
Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019 in the Sofia University Mountains on

Alexander Island Alexander Island, which is also known as Alexander I Island, Alexander I Land, Alexander Land, Alexander I Archipelago, and Zemlja Alexandra I, is the largest island of Antarctica. It lies in the Bellingshausen Sea west of Palmer Land, Antarcti ...

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. The ridge is situated northeast of Mount Kliment Ohridski, extending in the north-south direction, wide, and is bounded by Poste Valley to the east, by Palestrina Glacier to the north and its tributary Yozola Glacier to the west. Balan Ridge is named for the Bulgarian

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, historian and

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Aleksandar Teodorov-Balan (1859–1959), first rector of

Sofia University Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" () is a public university, public research university in Sofia, Bulgaria. It is the oldest institution of higher education in Bulgaria. Founded on 1 October 1888, the edifice of the university was constr ...

and one of the founders of the tourist movement in Bulgaria.

Location

Balan Ridge is located at . British mapping in 1963.

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 of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.

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References

Balan Ridge.

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Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.

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basic data
in English)

External links

Balan Ridge.
Copernix satellite image Ridges of Alexander Island Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{AlexanderIsland-geo-stub

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