Vranya Pass is the ice-covered saddle of elevation 2100 m separating Sullivan Heights

Sullivan Heights

Sullivan Heights is a compact group of mountains rising to 2,760 m in Mount Levack and including Mount Farrell, Mount Segers and Mamarchev Peak, centered 11.5 nautical miles east-northeast of Mount Tyree in the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains...

 from Vinson Massif

Vinson Massif

Vinson Massif is the highest mountain of Antarctica, lying in the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains, which stand above the Ronne Ice Shelf near the base of the Antarctic Peninsula. The massif is located about from the South Pole and is about long and wide. At the highest point is Mount...

 in Sentinel Range

Sentinel Range

The Sentinel Range is a major mountain range situated northward of Minnesota Glacier and forming the northern half of the Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica. The range trends NNW-SSE for about and is 24 to 48 km wide...

, Ellsworth Mountains

Ellsworth Mountains

The Ellsworth Mountains are the highest mountain ranges in Antarctica, forming a long and wide chain of mountains in a north to south configuration on the western margin of the Ronne Ice Shelf. They are bisected by Minnesota Glacier to form the northern Sentinel Range and the southern Heritage...

 in Antarctica. It is part of the glacial divide between Crosswell Glacier

Crosswell Glacier

Crosswell Glacier is a glacier 10 nautical miles long, flowing north-northeast from Mount Shinn to enter Ellen Glacier, in the central part of Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains. First mapped by United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1957-59. Named by...

 to the northwest and Hinkley Glacier to the east.

The saddle is named after the settlement of Vranya

Vranya, Bulgaria

Vranya, Bulgaria is a village in the municipality of Sandanski, in Blagoevgrad Province, Bulgaria.-References:...

 in Southwestern Bulgaria.

Location

Vranya Pass is centred at 78°26′33"S 85°21′30"W, which is 10.9 km northeast of Mount Vinson, 8.51 km east of Mount Shinn

Mount Shinn

Mount Shinn is a mountain 4660m in altitude, standing 4 miles southeast of Mount Tyree in the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains. Discovered on IGY reconnaissance flights in January 1958, and named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Lieutenant Commander Conrad S. Shinn, U.S....

, 1.74 km south of Mount Segers, 4.2 km north-northwest of Vanand Peak

Vanand Peak

Vanand Peak is the sharp peak rising to 3100 m in Zinsmeister Ridge on the northeast side of Vinson Massif in Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica, and surmounting Dater Glacier to the east and its tributary Hinkley Glacier to the northwest....

 and 9.98 km west-northwest of Mount Waldron

Mount Waldron

Mount Waldron is a mountain 3 nautical miles north of Mount Tuck, surmounting Veregava Ridge in the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains. Discovered by U.S. Navy Squadron VX-6 on photographic flights of December 14–15, 1959, and mapped from these photos by United States Geological Survey . Named...

. US mapping in 1961, updated in 1988.

Maps

• Vinson Massif. Scale 1:250 000 topographic map. Reston, Virginia: US Geological Survey, 1988.