Macheret Trench
| Macheret Trench | ||
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| location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 37 ′ 20 ″ S , 60 ° 14 ′ 50 ″ W | |
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| length | 3.8 km | |
The Macheret Trench ( Bulgarian падина Мачерет padina Matscheret ) is a fully glacial ice covered valley on the Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It runs under the Perunika Glacier with a maximum depth of 120 m below sea level north of the Rezen Knoll over a length of 3.8 km in a south-easterly direction to near the Wörner Gap .
Russian, Spanish and Uzbek scientists mapped them in a joint sonar location project . The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2012 after the Russian glaciologist Yuri Matscheret, under whose direction the depression was discovered in 2006.
Web links
- Macheret Trench in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)