Ezerets, Dobrich Province

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Ezerets
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Ezerets
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Coordinates: 43°35′42″N28°32′10″E / 43.595°N 28.536°E / 43.595; 28.536 Coordinates: 43°35′42″N28°32′10″E / 43.595°N 28.536°E / 43.595; 28.536
Country Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Bulgaria
Province Dobrich Province
Municipality Shabla
Time zone UTC+2 (EET)
  Summer (DST) UTC+3 (EEST)

Ezerets is a village in Shabla Municipality, Dobrich Province, northeastern Bulgaria. [1]

Shabla Municipality Municipality in Dobrich, Bulgaria

Shabla Municipality is a municipality (obshtina) in Dobrich Province, Bulgaria, located in the north-easternmost part of the country on the Northern Bulgarian Black Sea Coast in Southern Dobruja geographical region, bounded by Romania to the north. It is named after its administrative centre - the town of Shabla.

Dobrich Province Province in Bulgaria

Dobrich Province is a province in northeastern Bulgaria, part of Southern Dobruja geographical region. It is bounded on east by the Black Sea, on south by Varna Province, on west by Yambol & Sliven provinces, on north by Shumen & Varna provinces. It is divided into 8 municipalities. At the 2011 census, it had a population of 186,016.

Bulgaria country in Southeast Europe

Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, and the Black Sea to the east. The capital and largest city is Sofia; other major cities are Plovdiv, Varna and Burgas. With a territory of 110,994 square kilometres (42,855 sq mi), Bulgaria is Europe's 16th-largest country.

Ezerets Knoll on Graham Land, Antarctica is named after the village.

Ezerets Knoll

Ezerets Knoll is the narrow, mostly ice-covered ridge extending 3.35 km in west-northwest to east-southeast direction, 800 m wide and rising to 900 m in the west foothills of Bruce Plateau on Graham Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. It surmounts Hugi Glacier to the west and its tributary Rickmers Glacier to the northeast.

Graham Land geographical object

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Antarctica Polar continent in the Earths southern hemisphere

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Rickmers Glacier glacier in Antarctica

Rickmers Glacier is a glacier flowing into Hugi Glacier just northwest of Ezerets Knoll, on the west coast of Graham Land. Photographed by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. in 1955-57, and mapped from these photos by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1959 for W. Rickmer Rickmers, German pioneer exponent of skiing and joint author of the first English manual on skiing. He also improved the design of ice axes, introducing the characteristic shape still in use.

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Rasnik Peak

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Nauchene Nunatak

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References

  1. Guide Bulgaria, Accessed May 23, 2010