Sostra Heights (, ‘Sostrenski Vazvisheniya’ \'so-stren-ski v&-zvi-'she-ni-ya\) are the heights rising ro 2352 mReference Elevation Model of Antarctica.
Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019 at Mount Malone on the east side of northern

Sentinel 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 ...

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 ...

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. They extend 22 km in northwest–southeast direction and 16.5 km in northeast–southwest direction. The heights are bounded by

Embree Glacier Embree Glacier is a long glacier in the north-central part of Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains, draining the eastern slopes of Mount Hale, Mount Davis and Mount Bentley, the northeast slopes of Mount Anderson, and the northwestern slopes ...

to the south,

Sabazios Glacier Sabazios Glacier (, ) is the long and wide glacier on the east side of northern Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. It is situated south of Newcomer Glacier, west of Anchialus Glacier, north of Embree Glacier, and east of Z ...

to the west, Newcomer Glacier to the north and

Rutford Ice Stream Rutford Ice Stream () is a major Antarctic ice stream, about long and over wide, which drains southeastward between the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains and Fletcher Ice Rise into the southwest part of Ronne Ice Shelf. Named by US-ACAN f ...

to the east, and separated by

Robinson Pass Robinson Pass (, ''Prohod Robinson''), in Antarctica, is the ice-covered saddle of elevation Mount Dalrymple Mount Dalrymple () is a mountain (3,600 m) between Mount Alf and Mount Goldthwait in the northern part of the Sentinel Range, Antarctica. It surmounts Sabazios Glacier to the north-northeast and Embree Glacier to the southeast. The mountain ...

on the main crest of Sentinel Range. Their interior is drained by Anchialus Glacier and

Vit Ice Piedmont Vit Ice Piedmont (, ) is the glacier extending 12 km in north-south direction and 6 km in east-west direction in Sostra Heights on the east side of northern Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. It is situated north of t ...

. The heights are named after the ancient

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fortress of Sostra in Northern Bulgaria.

Location

Sostra Heights are centred at . US mapping in 1961.

Features

Geographical features include:

* Anchialus Glacier * Blenika Peak * Bracken Peak *

Mount Lanning Mount Lanning () is a mountain, high, located at the south side of Newcomer Glacier, southeast of Mount Warren, in the northern portion of the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. It forms the north extremity of Sostra Heights, ...

* Mount Malone * Mount McKeown * Newcomer Glacier *

Robinson Pass Robinson Pass (, ''Prohod Robinson''), in Antarctica, is the ice-covered saddle of elevation Sabazios Glacier Sabazios Glacier (, ) is the long and wide glacier on the east side of northern Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. It is situated south of Newcomer Glacier, west of Anchialus Glacier, north of Embree Glacier, and east of Z ...

* Skaklya Glacier *

Zhenda Glacier Zhenda Glacier (, ) is the 8 km long and 4.8 km wide glacier on the east side of the main crest of northern Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. It is situated west of Sabazios Glacier and southeast of Skaklya Glacier ...

Maps

Newcomer Glacier.
Scale 1:250 000 topographic map. Reston, Virginia: US Geological Survey, 1961.
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

Sostra Heights.

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.
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.

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. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)

External links

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