Saparevo Glacier
Location of Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Topographic map of Smith Island.
Saparevo Glacier (Bulgarian: ледник Сапарево, ‘Lednik Saparevo’ \'led-nik sa-pa-'re-vo\) is an 1.8 km long and 2 km wide glacier draining the northwest slopes of Imeon Range on Smith Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is situated northeast of Kongur Glacier, and flows north-northeast of Mount Christi and southwest of Matochina Peak into Vedena Cove in Drake Passage. Bulgarian early mapping in 2009. The glacier is named after the settlement of Saparevo in Southwestern Bulgaria.
Coordinates: 62°53′48″S 62°23′20″W / 62.89667°S 62.38889°W
Maps
- L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4
References
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.
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