Boyana Glacier

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Boyana Glacier
View from the Bransfield Strait to the Bojana Glacier (background: Tangra Mountains)

View from the Bransfield Strait to the Bojana Glacier (background:  Tangra Mountains )

location Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands
Mountains Tangra Mountains
Coordinates 62 ° 42 ′  S , 60 ° 5 ′  W Coordinates: 62 ° 42 ′  S , 60 ° 5 ′  W
Bojana Glacier (South Shetland Islands)
Boyana Glacier
drainage Bransfield Strait , Southern Ocean
Map of the Tangra Mountains with the Bojana Glacier

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 .

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