Huhla Col
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Huhla Col is the ice-covered col of elevation over 900 m on Trinity Peninsula
Trinity Peninsula
Trinity Peninsula is the extreme northern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, extending northeastward for about from a line connecting Cape Kjellman and Cape Longing. Dating back more than a century, chartmakers used various names for this portion of the Antarctic peninsula, each name having some...

 in Graham Land
Graham Land
Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...

, Antarctica, which is linking Snegotin Ridge
Snegotin Ridge
Snegotin Ridge is the ice-covered ridge rising to over 1200 m on the northwest side of Louis-Philippe Plateau on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica. It is overlooking Bransfield Strait to the north, and Prelez Gap and the head of Malorad Glacier to the west-soothwest...

 to the north to the west part of Louis-Philippe Plateau to the south. It is overlooking Prelez Gap
Prelez Gap
Prelez Gap is the flat ice-covered saddle of elevation over 700 m on Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land, Antarctica, which is linking Marescot Ridge to the northwest to Louis-Philippe Plateau to the southeast. It is overlooking the upper course of Malorad Glacier to the west.The gap is named after...

 and Malorad Glacier
Malorad Glacier
Malorad Glacier is the 14 km long and 10.5 km wide glacier on Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula. Situated northeast of Hanson Hill, north of Srednogorie Heights, northwest of Louis-Philippe Plateau and southwest of Marescot Ridge...

 to the west-northwest.

The col is named after the settlement of Huhla
Huhla
Huhla is a village in the municipality of Ivaylovgrad, in Haskovo Province, in southern Bulgaria.Huhla Col on Trinity Peninsula in Antarctica is named after the village....

in Southern Bulgaria.

Location

Huhla Col is centred at 63°34′47"S 58°29′14"W. German-British mapping in 1996.

Map

  • Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.
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