Boyana Glacier
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 View from the Bransfield Strait to the Bojana Glacier (background: Tangra Mountains ) |
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| location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Mountains | Tangra Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 42 ′ S , 60 ° 5 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Bransfield Strait , Southern Ocean | |
 Map of the Tangra Mountains with the Bojana Glacier |
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The Boyana Glacier ( Bulgarian Ледник Бояна Lednik Bojana ) is a glacier on the south coast of Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . In the Tangra Mountains, it lies south of the Peshev Ridge and the Balchik Ridge . It flows 1.5 km east-northeast of Brunow Bay into the Bransfield Strait .
The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2002 after the village of Boyana , which is now a district of the Bulgarian capital Sofia .
Web links
- Boyana Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Boyana Glacier on geographic.org (English)