Quiroga Ridge

Location of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.

Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Quiroga Ridge (Bulgarian: хребет Кирога, 'Hrebet Quiroga' \'hre-bet ki-'ro-ga\) is a submarine ridge in False Bay, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. It extends 2.2 km in an east-southeast to west-northwest direction between Ogosta Point on the Rozhen Peninsula and the opposite coast of Hurd Peninsula at a depth of over 50 m, with depths exceeding 100 m on both sides of the ridge. It was formed as a frontal moraine of Huntress Glacier between the 13th and 17th centuries.

The feature is named after Victor Quiroga Martínez, captain of the Spanish ocean exploration ship BIO Hespérides that rendered logistic support to the Bulgarian Antarctic campaigns in the 1990s.

Location

Quiroga Ridge is centred at 62°42′24″S 60°20′50″W / 62.70667°S 60.34722°W / -62.70667; -60.34722Coordinates: 62°42′24″S 60°20′50″W / 62.70667°S 60.34722°W / -62.70667; -60.34722. Spanish mapping in 1991.

Maps

Isla Livingston: Península Hurd. Mapa topográfico de escala 1:25000. Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército, 1991.

References

Quiroga Ridge. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

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

South Shetland Islands

Major	Clarence Deception Elephant Greenwich King George Livingston Low Nelson Robert Smith Snow

Minor	Aitcho Barrientos Bilyana Cecilia Emeline Jorge Kilifarevo Pasarel Riksa Araguez Astor Barlow Basso Beslen Boatin Borceguí Bridgeman Chiprovtsi Cornwall Cornwallis Craggy Dee Desolation Dinea Dufayel Dunbar Aspis Balsha Melyane Pogledets Zavala Eadie Express Gibbs Glumche Gnomon González Half Moon Heywood Kabile Låvebrua Meade Cave Pisanitsa Zverino Miladinovi Montufar Ongley Onogur Churicheni Grod Kovach Leeve Oescus Osenovlag Redina Svetulka Vilare Penguin Pordim Prisad Prosechen Pyramid Rogozen Romeo Rowett Rugged San Telmo Seal Sierra Square End Stoker Sugarloaf Table Tatul Tirizis Toledo Treklyano Valchedram Window Withem Wood Zebil Zed Esperanto Koshava Lesidren Phanagoria

Rocks, stacks, reefs spits and banks	Aim Rocks Alepu Avren Belchin Bizone Bonert Borceguí Bowler Buchino Caraquet Chabrier Channel Chaos Chapman Cheshire Cone Cove Cutler Dlagnya Dovizio Eddystone Eliza Emm Enchantress Folger Frederick Galiche Goritsa Grace Graovo Growler Hauken Henfield Hetty Hole Holmes Ibar Indian Keep Knight Koynare Letelier Liberty Lientur Limit Livonia Long Low Lynx Lyutibrod Maglizh Makresh Martello Tower Meldia Mellona Milev Mónica Morris Nancy Napier Nikudin Okol Opaka Ørnen Orsoya Parry Patch Passage Patresh Perivol Pig Potmess Asses Ears Priboy Rabisha Raquelia Reyes Rongel Rosales Rusokastro Salient Sally Sewing-Machine Needles Shearer Simpson Sinbad Skrino Stackpole Stewart Suhache Syrezol Telefon Telish Tenorio The Pointers Tooth Tu Turmoil Tvarditsa Twin Pinnacles Two Summit Upton Vardim Vergilov Vidal Vietor Vodoley Voluyak Weeks

Straits	Boyd English Fildes Glogovo Hell Gates Iglika Izgrev Klimash McFarlane Morton Mugla Neck or Nothing Nelson Orión Osmar Smolensk Villalón

Undersea and subglacial features	Bransfield Trough Macheret Trench Orca Seamount Quiroga Ridge South Shetland Trough Vergilov Ridge Wordie Seamount

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