Catalunyan Saddle (Katalunska Sedlovina \ka-ta-'lun-ska se-dlo-vi-'na\) is a saddle of 1260 m height in theFriesland Ridge of theTangra Mountains onLivingston Island, in theSouth Shetland Islands. The saddle is bounded byLyaskovets Peak to the east and byPresian Ridge to the west. The saddle was named in honour of theCatalans Francesc Sàbat (q.v.Sàbat Hill) and Jorge Enrique (q.v.Enrique Hill) fromJuan Carlos I Base who established the first route via the saddle toMount Friesland on 30 December 1991.

The saddle is located at62°39′58.5″S60°08′51.2″W / 62.666250°S 60.147556°W /-62.666250; -60.147556 which is 11.5 km east ofSt. Kliment Ohridski Base and 3.4 km south ofKuzman Knoll. Part of the saddle is occupied by an amazingly shaped ice-covered feature called the Sphinx.

The saddle was occupied by a bivouac of the BulgarianTangra 2004/05 Survey team (Lyubomir Ivanov andDoychin Vasilev) during 14 December–16 December 2004 and was mapped in 2005.

• 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 IslandsArchived 2008-04-24 at theWayback Machine. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009.ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4
• L.L. Ivanov.Antarctica: Livingston Island and Smith Island. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017.ISBN 978-619-90008-3-0
• A. Kamburov and L. Ivanov.Bowles Ridge and Central Tangra Mountains: Livingston Island, Antarctica. Scale 1:25000 map. Sofia: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2023.ISBN 978-619-90008-6-1

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  Catalunyan Saddle in the foreground, withBransfield Strait in the foreground and theAntarctic Peninsula on the horizon
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  TheTangra 2004/05 Bivouac at Catalunyan Saddle
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  ‘The Sphinx,’ withLyaskovets Peak on the left andLevski Peak on the right background
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  Catalunyan Saddle with 'The Sphinx' fromPresian Ridge, withSt. Ivan Rilski Col emerging from the fog in the background
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  Topographic map ofBowles Ridge and centralTangra Mountains

• Catalunyan Saddle.SCARComposite Antarctic Gazetteer
• Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian,basic data in English)
• D. Gildea.Mountaineering in Antarctica: complete guide: Travel guide. Primento and Editions Nevicata, 2015.ISBN 978-2-51103-136-0
• Antarctica: Livingston Island,Climb Magazine, Issue 14, Kettering, UK, April 2006, pp. 89-91.

• Catalunyan Saddle. Copernix satellite image

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

• Tangra Mountains
• Catalonia
• Spain and the Antarctic

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