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Roygos Ridge (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Roygos Ridge (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Ridge (2d)
This name originates from Bulgaria. It is part of the Bulgaria Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
The mostly ice-covered ridge extending 9.6 km in SE-NW direction, 3.2 km wide and rising to 1250 m on the E coast of Darbel Bay, Loubet Coast in Graham Land. Situated 6.8 km SW of Mount Lyttleton, 5.65 km W of Karia Peak and 11.27 km N of Mount Bain, ending in Shanty Point on the NW. Rounded top and steep, partly ice-free N and S slopes. Surmounts Erskine Glacier to the S and Cardell Glacier to the N. British mapping in 1976. Named after the Thracian King Roygos (3rd century BC).
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