Kongur glacier
Kongur glacier | ||
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Map of Smith Island with the Kongur Glacier (above) |
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location | Smith Island , South Shetland Islands | |
Mountains | Imeon Range | |
length | 2.7 km | |
Coordinates | 62 ° 54 '23 " S , 62 ° 25' 48" W | |
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drainage | Drake Street |
The Kongur Glacier ( Bulgarian ледник Конгур lednik Kongur ) is a 2.7 km long glacier on Smith Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . Of the northwestern slopes of the Imeon Range it flows west of the Mount of Christ the Drake Passage .
Bulgarian scientists mapped it in 2008. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in the same year after the Kongur nature reserve in the Belasiza Mountains in southwestern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Kongur Glacier in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)