Kopsis glacier
| Kopsis glacier | ||
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| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sentinel Range , Ellsworth Mountains | |
| length | 13 km | |
| width | Max. 4 km | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 3 ′ S , 85 ° 16 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Embree glacier | |
The Kopsis Glacier ( Bulgarian ледник Копсис lednik Kopsis ) is a 13 km long and 4 km wide glacier in the West Antarctic Ellsworthland . It is located on the east side of the north-central part of the Sentinel Range in the Ellsworth Mountains , flows from Panicheri Gap , Voysil Peak and Mount Gozur in a northeasterly direction and flows northwest of Mirovyane Peak into the Embree Glacier .
American scientists mapped it in 1988. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2011 after the medieval city of Kopsis in central Bulgaria .
Web links
- Kopsis Glacier in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)