Medwen Glacier
| Medwen Glacier | ||
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 View from northern Friesland Ridge to the Medwen Glacier |
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| location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Mountains | Oryahovo Heights | |
| length | 2.5 km | |
| width | Max. 1.8 km | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 32 '46 " S , 60 ° 42' 34" W | |
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| drainage | Prisoe Cove | |
The Medwen Glacier ( Bulgarian ледник Медвен lednik Medwen ) is a 2.5 km long and 1.8 km wide glacier on the east side of the John Paul II Peninsula of Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It flows from the eastern slopes of Oryahovo Heights in an easterly direction to Prisoe Cove , where it joins between Remetalk Point and Agüero Point .
The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2005 after the town of Medwen in the eastern Balkan Mountains in Bulgaria .
Web links
- Medven Glacier in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)