Lardeja Piedmont Glacier
| Lardeja Piedmont Glacier | ||
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| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sentinel Range , Ellsworth Mountains | |
| Type | Foreland glacier | |
| length | 16 km | |
| width | Max. 7.5 km | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 21 ′ S , 84 ° 20 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Rutford Ice Stream and Ellen Glacier | |
The Lardeja Piedmont Glacier ( Bulgarian ледник Лардея lednik Lardeja ) is a north-south orientation 16 km long and 7.5 km wide foreland glacier in the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . On the east side of the Sentinel Range in the Ellsworth Mountains, it drains the northeastern slopes of the Flowers Hills and flows in an east-northeast direction to the Rutford Ice Current and in a northerly direction to the Ellen Glacier .
American scientists mapped it in 1988. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2012 after the medieval fortress Lardeja in southeastern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Lardeya Ice Piedmont in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)