Kongur glacier

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Kongur glacier
Map of Smith Island with the Kongur Glacier (above)

Map of Smith Island with the Kongur Glacier (above)

location Smith Island , South Shetland Islands
Mountains Imeon Range
length 2.7 km
Coordinates 62 ° 54 '23 "  S , 62 ° 25' 48"  W Coordinates: 62 ° 54 '23 "  S , 62 ° 25' 48"  W.
Kongur Glacier (South Shetland Islands)
Kongur glacier
drainage Drake Street
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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 .

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