Dimov Gate

Dimov Gate
Location of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Dimov Gate from Miziya Peak, with Castra Martis Hill in the foreground.

Dimov Gate (Dimova Porta \'di-mo-va 'por-ta\) is a 300 m wide ice-covered pass in Antarctica, located in eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and bounded by Rayna Knyaginya Peak in Bowles Ridge to the southeast and by Hemus Peak to the northwest. The pass separates the glacial catchments of Kaliakra Glacier, and the tributary glacier draining the area between Hemus Peak and Bowles West Peak and flowing west-southwestwards into Perunika Glacier. It affords overland access from Perunika Glacier to the northern slopes of Bowles Ridge and to upper Kaliakra Glacier.

The pass is named after Dimo Dimov, geologist at St. Kliment Ohridski in several seasons since 1993.

Location

The midpoint is located at 62°36′27″S 60°12′50″W / 62.6075°S 60.21389°W / -62.6075; -60.21389 which is 3.86 km northeast by south of Rezen Knoll, 1.34 km west-northwest of Mount Bowles, 2.6 km west of Yankov Gap and 3.87 km south of Elhovo Gap. (UK Directorate of Overseas Surveys mapping in 1968, Spanish mapping in 1991, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009. Co-ordinates, elevation and distances given according to a 1995-96 Bulgarian topographic survey.

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