Letnitsa Glacier
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 Map of Smith Island with the Gramada Glacier (lower half of the map) |
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| location | Smith Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Mountains | Imeon Range | |
| length | 1.8 km | |
| Coordinates | 63 ° 2 '59 " S , 62 ° 36' 12" W | |
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| drainage | Hisarya Cove | |
The Letnitsa Glacier ( Bulgarian ледник Летница lednik Letniza ) is a 1.8 km long glacier on Smith Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . From the southeast slopes of the Imeon Range it flows east of Organa Peak and south of Riggs Peak in a south-easterly direction to Hisarya Cove .
Bulgarian scientists mapped it in 2008. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in the same year after the city of Letnitsa in northern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Letnitsa Glacier in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)