Shipka Saddle
Shipka Saddle is a deep ice-covered saddle in Tangra Mountains, Livingston Island, Antarctica between Friesland Ridge to the west and Levski Ridge to the east. The feature is 250 m long, with an elevation ca. 1,200 m. It forms part of the divide between the glacial catchments of Huron Glacier to the north and Macy Glacier to the south.
Shipka is the name of a pass in the Stara Planina in central Bulgaria.Location
The saddle midpoint is located at, which is 2.99 km east of Mount Friesland, 3.52 km south-southeast of Kuzman Knoll, 3.91 km west of Great Needle Peak and 3.95 km north of Peshev Peak (UK Directorate of Overseas Surveys mapping in 1968; rough Argentine mapping in 1980, and Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009. Co-ordinates, elevation and distances given according to a 1995-96 Bulgarian topographic survey and the Tangra 2004/05 survey.Maps
