Kyustendil Ridge is a partly ice-free ridge rising to Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica. Polar Geospatial Center. University of Minnesota, 2019 on Nordenskjöld Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. It extends in a west–east direction between Foster Plateau and Weddell Sea, and is wide. The ridge is bounded by Drygalski Glacier to the north, and Rogosh Glacier and Zlokuchene Glacier to the south. It is linked by Mrahori Saddle to Lovech Heights to the south.
The feature is named after the city of Kyustendil in western Bulgaria, and was given to the ridge by Bulgaria and originally in the Bulgarian language: Кюстендилски хребет, romanised as Kyustendilski Hrebet.
Location Kyustendil Ridge is centred at , mapped by the British in 1978.
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References Kyustendil Ridge. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
External links Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016. Kyustendil Ridge. Adjusted Copernix satellite image