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'''Pliska Ridge''' (Vrah Pliska \'vr&h 'pli-ska\) is a three-peaked ridge rising to 667 m in eastern [[Livingston Island]], [[Antarctica]]. Its central and highest peak is located 2.6 km ENE of [[Willan Nunatak]] (449 m), 1.7 km SE of [[Burdick Peak]] (773 m, summit of [[Burdick Ridge]]), 3.53 km SSW of [[Mount Bowles]], 3.68 km WSW of [[Kuzman Knoll]], and 3.6 km NW of [[Mount Friesland]]. The feature is 1.6 km long and 500 m wide, its axis trending due E-W, with precipitous southern slopes. It is ice covered except for segments of its easternmost peak (646 m) and is bounded to the NW by [[Orpheus Gate]], to the N by the head of [[Perunika Glacier]], to the E by [[Nesebar Gap]], and to the S and W by the head of [[Huntress Glacier]], the latter flowing 6 km southwestwards into [[False Bay]].
[[Pliska]] is the name of a settlement in north-eastern [[Bulgaria]], which in the seventh century became the capital of the [[First Bulgarian Empire|First Bulgarian Kingdom]].
[[Image:Pliska-Livingston.jpg|350px|thumb|left]]
==Location==
The summit of the ridge is located at {{coor dms|62|38|44|S|60|13|49|W|}} (Rough British mapping in 1968, detailed Spanish mapping in 1991, Bulgarian mapping from topographic surveys in 1995/96 and 2004/05).
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{{Bulgarian-named Antarctic place}}
[[Category:South Shetland Islands]]
[[Category:Geography of Livingston Island]]
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