Butamja glacier
| Butamja glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| length | 6.9 km | |
| width | Max. 2.5 km | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ S , 64 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| drainage | Beascochea Bay | |
The Butamja Glacier ( Bulgarian ледник Бутамя lednik Butamja ) is a 6.9 km long and 2.5 km wide glacier on the Barison Peninsula on the Graham Coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows north-west of the Talew Glacier and north-northeast of the Chernomen Glacier in a northerly direction to Beascochea Bay .
British scientists mapped it in 1971. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2010 after the seaside resort of Butamja on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast .
Web links
- Butamya Glacier in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)