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Sipey Bluff (, ) is the bluff rising to 2270 mReference Elevation Model of Antarctica.
Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019
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Veregava Ridge Veregava Ridge (, ‘Hrebet Veregava’ \'hre-bet ve-re-'ga-va\) is the ridge rising to 3210 mSentinel Range The Sentinel Range is a major mountain range situated northward of Minnesota Glacier and forming the northern half of the Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica. The range trends NNW-SSE for about and is wide. Many peaks rise over and Vinson Mass ...
in
Ellsworth Mountains The Ellsworth Mountains are the highest mountain ranges in Antarctica, forming a long and wide chain of mountains in a north to south configuration on the western margin of the Ronne Ice Shelf in Marie Byrd Land. They are bisected by Minneso ...
,
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 surmounts
Orizari Glacier Orizari Glacier (, ) is the long and wide glacier in Veregava Ridge on the east side of Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. It is draining the north slopes of Mount Waldron, and flowing north-northwestwards to join Dater Gl ...
to the south-southwest,
Dater Glacier The Dater Glacier is a steep valley glacier in Antarctica, long and from wide, flowing northeast in a sinuous course from the eastern slopes of the Vinson Massif between Sullivan Heights and Veregava Ridge to Rutford Ice Stream which bor ...
to the west and north, and Berisad Glacier to the east. The peak is named after the settlement of Sipey in Southern Bulgaria.


Location

Sipey Bluff is located at , which is 5.26 km north of
Mount Waldron Mount Waldron is a mountain (3,100 m) in Antarctica, the summit of Veregava Ridge in the Sentinel Range of Ellsworth Mountains. It is situated 3 nautical miles (6 km) north of Mount Tuck, and surmounts Dater Glacier to the west, Orizari Gl ...
, 9.46 km east by north of Mount Segers, 5.71 km south-southeast of Mount Farrell and 4.15 km northwest of Kushla Peak. US mapping in 1961, updated in 1988.


Maps


Vinson Massif.
Scale 1:250 000 topographic map. Reston, Virginia: US Geological Survey, 1988.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly updated.


Notes


References


Sipey Peak.
SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
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)


External links


Sipey Bluff.
Copernix satellite image Ellsworth Mountains Mountains of Ellsworth Land Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{EllsworthLand-geo-stub