Earth glacier
| Earth glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Mountains | Forbidden plateau | |
| length | 6 km | |
| width | Max. 2.8 km | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 10 ′ 25 ″ S , 62 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| drainage | Jorum glacier | |
The earth Glacier ( Bulgarian ледник Ерден Lednik earth ) is a 6 km long and 2.8 km wide glacier on the Oskar-II. coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows southwest of the Lessitscheri Glacier from the southeast slopes of the Forbidden Plateau in a southeast direction to the Jorum Glacier .
British scientists mapped it in 1976 The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2013 after the town of Erden in northwestern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Erden Glacier in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)