Magura glacier
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 View from the Bransfield Strait to the Magura Glacier (background: Tangra Mountains ) |
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| location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Mountains | Tangra Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 40 ′ S , 60 ° 0 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Bransfield Street | |
 Map of the Tangra Mountains with the Magura Glacier |
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The Magura Glacier ( Bulgarian Ледник Магура Lednik Magura ) is a glacier in the south of Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . In the Tangra Mountains, it flows southeast from the southern slopes of Helmet Peak and joins the Bransfield Strait 1.5 km northeast of M'Kean Point .
The name was given by the Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names in 2002. The name is given by the Magura , a cave in Bulgaria.
Web links
- Magura Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Magura Glacier on geographic.org (English)