Murgasch glacier
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 View from McFarlane Strait on the Murgasch Glacier |
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| location | Greenwich Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| length | 4 km | |
| width | ⌀ 5 km | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 29 '49 " S , 59 ° 52' 53" W | |
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| drainage | McFarlane Strait | |
The Murgasch Glacier ( Bulgarian ледник Мургаш lednik Murgasch ) is a 4 km long and 5 km wide glacier on Greenwich Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It lies east and south of Lloyd Hill , west of Tile Ridge and flows southwards between Telerig-Nunatak and Triangle Point in McFarlane Strait .
The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2005 after a mountain in the Bulgarian part of the Balkan Mountains .
Web links
- Murgash Glacier in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)