Sinitovo Gap

Location of Danco Coast on Antarctic Peninsula.

Sinitovo Gap (Bulgarian: седловина Синитово, ‘Sedlovina Sinitovo’ \se-dlo-vi-'na si-'ni-to-vo\ is the ice-covered saddle of elevation 1100 m extending 1.6 km in the northwest foothills of Detroit Plateau on Danco Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. It connects Perkos Dome on the south to Kaliva Range on the northwest, and is part of the glacial divide between Wright Ice Piedmont to the east and Breguet Glacier to the west.

The saddle is named after the settlement of Sinitovo in Southern Bulgaria.

Location

Sinitovo Gap is located at 64°11′50″S 60°29′00″W / 64.19722°S 60.48333°WCoordinates: 64°11′50″S 60°29′00″W / 64.19722°S 60.48333°W, which is 30.4 km southeast of Cape Sterneck (Herschel). British mapping in 1978.

Maps

• British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 60. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1978.
• Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.

References

• Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
• Sinitovo Gap. SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.