Tile Ridge (Rid Tile ) is a partly ice-free ridge of elevation 240 m in Dryanovo Heights, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.

The ridge is named after the ancient Tile (Tylis), capital town of the Celtic Kingdom in Thrace, 279–213 BC, and ancestor of the present Bulgarian settlement of Tulovo near Stara Zagora City.

Location

The ridge is located at , which is 2.3km east-southeast of Lloyd Hill, 2.55km north of Triangle Point, and 2.37km west of Malamir Knoll (Bulgarian topographic survey Tangra 2004/05 and mapping in 2009).

See also

• List of Bulgarian toponyms in Antarctica

Maps

• L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.

• L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009.

References

• Tile Ridge. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer

• Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)

External links

• Tile Ridge. Copernix satellite image