Teres Ridge (Hrebet Teres \'hre-bet 'te-res\) is a ridge of elevation 330 m extending 2 km in north-south direction and 1.2 km in east-west direction near Siddins Point on the Hero Bay coast of

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in the

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surmounting Tundzha Glacier to the southwest and Saedinenie Snowfield to the southeast and east. Ice-free northeastern and northern slopes. The ridge is named after the

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King

Teres I Teres I (, ; reigned (Unknown–445 BC)The Thracians 700 BC-AD 46 (Men-at-Arms) by Christopher Webber and Angus McBride, 2001, , page 5 was the first king of a large, unified Odrysian kingdom of Thrace. Teres, who united the 40 or more Thracian ...

, 480-440 BC.

Location

The ridge is located at , which is 2.3 km southeast of Siddins Point, 10.25 km west of Leslie Hill, 10.7 km west-northwest of Hemus Peak, 9.8 km northwest of Rezen Knoll and 9.25 km north of Sinemorets Hill (Bulgarian topographic survey

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, and mapping in 2005 and 2009).

Maps

* L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000

topographic map In modern mapping, a topographic map or topographic sheet is a type of map characterized by large- scale detail and quantitative representation of relief features, usually using contour lines (connecting points of equal elevation), but histori ...

. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of

Bulgaria Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey t ...

, 2005. * L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2010. (First edition 2009. )
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica.

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(SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated. * L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Smith Island. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017.

References

Teres Ridge.
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 ...

Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.

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. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)

External links

Teres Ridge.
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