Anchialos glacier
| Anchialos glacier | ||
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| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sentinel Range , Ellsworth Mountains | |
| length | 8.5 km | |
| width | Max. 3.4 km | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 51 '50 " S , 85 ° 24' 30" W | |
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| drainage | Newcomer Glacier | |
The Anchialos Glacier ( Bulgarian ледник Анхиало lednik Anchialo ) is a 8.5 km long and 3.4 km wide glacier in the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . In the Sostra Heights of the northern Sentinel Range in the Ellsworth Mountains, it flows north of the lower section of Embree Glacier , east of Sabazios Glacier and northwest of Wit Piedmont Glacier from the northeastern slopes of Mount Malone and the western slopes of Bracken Peak in a northerly direction to the Newcomer Glacier , which he reaches east of Mount Lanning .
American scientists mapped it in 1961. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2014 after the ancient city of Anchialos in southeastern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Anchialus Glacier in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)