Ilchev Buttress (, ‘Ilchev Rid’ \'il-chev 'rid\) is the rocky, partly ice-covered buttress extending 5 km in north-south direction, 2.2 km wide and 1374 mReference Elevation Model of Antarctica.
Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019 high, forming the northeast extremity of

Chiren Heights Chiren Heights (, ‘Chirenski Vazvisheniya’ \'chi-ren-ski vaz-vi-'she-ni-ya\) is the ice-covered heights at the base of Velingrad Peninsula, Graham Coast on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula, extending 21 km in northeast-southwest direct ...

Velingrad Peninsula Velingrad Peninsula (, ) is the ice-covered peninsula projecting 22.5 km in northwest direction from Graham Coast on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula. Bounded by Barilari Bay to the northeast and Holtedahl Bay to the southwest, and separat ...

Graham Coast Graham Coast is the portion of the west coast of Graham Land in Antarctic Peninsula The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martin in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palm ...

Graham Land Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that 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 ...

Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean), it contains the geographic South Pole. ...

. It has steep and partly ice-free west, north and east slopes, and surmounts Sohm Glacier to the west, Bilgeri Glacier to the northwest, Byaga Point and

Barilari Bay Barilari Bay () is a bay long and wide, between Cape Garcia and Loqui Point on the west coast of Graham Land. The glaciers Birley, Lawrie, Weir and Bilgeri feed the bay. It was discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, and na ...

to the northeast, and Weir Glacier to the southeast. The buttress is named after Ivan Ilchev, 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 ...

(2007–2015), for his support for the Bulgarian Antarctic programme.

Location

Ilchev Buttress is located at , which is 7.8 km east of

Mount Zdarsky Mount Zdarsky is a mountain rising at the east side of Simler Snowfield on Velingrad Peninsula, between Barilari and Holtedahl Bays on the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. First charted and named "Mont Garcia" by the French Antarctic Ex ...

, 8.5 km southeast of

Mount Paulcke Mount Paulcke () is a mountain, at least 915 m, standing west of Huitfeldt Point, Barilari Bay, on the west coast of Graham Land. Photographed by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. in 1956–57, and mapped from these photos by the Falkland Islands Dependen ...

, 4.1 km west of Prestoy Point and 10.2 km northwest of Mount Genecand. British mapping in 1976.

Maps

Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
British Antarctic Territory.
Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 66 64. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1976.

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 (Bulgaria), Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria. The Commis ...

. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)
Ilchev Buttress.
SCAR

Composite Antarctic Gazetteer 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

Ilchev Buttress.
Copernix satellite image Ridges of Graham Land Bulgaria and the Antarctic Graham Coast {{GrahamCoast-geo-stub