Balkan snow field
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 The Balkan snowfield with the Castillo-Nunatak (foreground) and the summit of Mount Friesland (background) |
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| location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| length | 3 km | |
| width | Max. 2 km | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 38 ′ 36 ″ S , 60 ° 20 ′ 57 ″ W | |
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| drainage | South Bay | |
The Balkan Snowfield ( Bulgarian Плато Балкан Plato Balkan ) is a snowfield on a plateau 150 to 280 m in height in the east of Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . In the southwest it is crossed by the Velchev Rock and the upper Contell Glacier , in the southeast and east by the foothills of the Castillo-Nunatak and the Burdick Ridge , in the north by the lower section of the Perunika Glacier and the gently sloping northwestern part through the hills bounded along the Bulgarian Beach .
On March 16, 1994, Bulgarian scientists named it after the Balkan Peninsula .
Web links
- Balkan Snowfield in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Balkan Snowfield on geographic.org (English)