Kleptusa glacier
| Kleptusa glacier | ||
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| location | Anvers Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Mountains | Trojan Range and Osterrieth Range | |
| length | 6 km | |
| width | Max. 6 km | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ S , 63 ° 16 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| drainage | Fournier Bay | |
The Kleptusa Glacier ( Bulgarian ледник Клептуза lednik Kleptusa ) is a 6 km long and 6 km wide glacier on the Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows from the eastern slopes of Mount Hector in the Trojan Range and the northern slopes of the Osterrieth Range in a northerly direction to Fournier Bay , which it reaches east of Madzharovo Point and west of Studena Point .
The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2009 after the town of Kleptusa in southern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Kleptuza Glacier in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)