Balis Ridge ( bg, text=рид Балис, italic=no, ‘Rid Balis’ \'rid ba-'lis\ is the rocky, partly ice-covered ridge extending 7 km in southeast-northwest direction, 1.9 km wide and rising to 1292 mReference Elevation Model of Antarctica.
Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019 in the north foothills of Forbidden Plateau on Danco Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. It surmounts

Rozier Glacier Rozier Glacier () is a glacier flowing between Pishtachev Peak Wilhelmina Bay is a bay wide between the Reclus Peninsula and Cape Anna along the west coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula. It was discovered by the Belgian Antarctic ...

to the northeast,

Montgolfier Glacier Montgolfier Glacier () is a glacier situated between Rozier Glacier and Woodbury Glacier and flowing between Balis Ridge and Bacho Kiro Peak into Piccard Cove on the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. The glacier was mapped by the Falkla ...

to the southwest, and Wilhelmina Bay and its southwesterly part Piccard Cove to the northwest where the ridge ends in Sophie Cliff. The ridge is named after the Thracian god Balis.

Location

Balis Ridge is located at , which is 5.55 km east of

Bacho Kiro Peak Bacho Kiro Peak ( bg, връх Бачо Киро, vrah Bacho Kiro, ) is a rocky, partly ice-free peak rising to 1419 m Pishtachev Peak Wilhelmina Bay is a bay wide between the Reclus Peninsula and Cape Anna along the west coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula. It was discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897-99 led by Adrien de Gerlache. The bay is named ...

and 7.28 km northwest of

Mount Walker Mount Walker () is a snow-covered mountain which rises from the northeast part of Forbidden Plateau, 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) south of the head of Blanchard Glacier, in northern Graham Land, Antarctica. It was surveyed by Falkland Islands ...

. British mapping in 1980.

Maps

British Antarctic Territory.
Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 62. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1980.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.

Notes

References

Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.

Antarctic Place-names Commission The Antarctic Place-names Commission was established by the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute in 1994, and since 2001 has been a body affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria. The Commission approves Bulgarian place names in ...

. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)
Balis Ridge.
SCAR

Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica The Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (CGA) of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) is the authoritative international gazetteer containing all Antarctic toponyms published in national gazetteers, plus basic information about th ...

External links

Balis Ridge.
Copernix satellite image Ridges of Graham Land Bulgaria and the Antarctic Danco Coast {{DancoCoast-geo-stub