Tile Ridge
Tile Ridge is a partly ice-free ridge of elevation 240 m in Dryanovo Heights, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The ridge is named after the ancient Tile, capital town of the Celtic Kingdom in Thrace, 279–213 BC, and ancestor of the present Bulgarian settlement of Tulovo near Stara Zagora City.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hebrizelm Hill and Lloyd Hill.
Hebrizelm Hill
Peak
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Hebrizelm Hill is a rocky hill rising to 70 m on the south-west coast of Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. An offshoot of the hill is forming Kaspichan Point. The hill is named after the Thracian King Hebryzelmis, 389–384 BC.
Lloyd Hill
Peak
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Lloyd Hill is an ice-covered hill rising to 335 m in the southwest of Dryanovo Heights, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The hill surmounts Teteven Glacier to the north and Murgash Glacier to the southeast.
Dryanovo Heights
Peak
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Dryanovo Heights is an ice-covered heights, rising to 520 m in the northwest part of Greenwich Island. Extending 13 km in northwest-southeast direction, and 7 km in northeast-southwest direction. Dryanovo Heights is situated 3 km north of Tile Ridge.
Tile Ridge
- Type: Hill with an elevation of 90 metres
- Description: mountain in Antarctica
- Categories: ridge, mountain, and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Tile Ridge” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Tile Ridge”
- Chinese: “泰勒嶺”
- German: “Tile Ridge”
- Ladin: “Tile Ridge”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tile Ridge”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tile Ridge”
- Swedish: “Tile Ridge”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Ficheto Point and Doctor Guillermo Mann.
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Highlights include Altsek Nunatak and Murgash Glacier.
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