Mussala glacier
| Mussala glacier | ||
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 View from the Bransfield Strait to the Mussala Glacier (left) |
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| location | Greenwich Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Mountains | Breznik Heights | |
| length | 3.7 km | |
| width | ⌀ 2 km | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 31 '57 " S , 59 ° 36' 49" W | |
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| drainage | Bransfield Street | |
The Mussala Glacier ( Bulgarian ледник Мусала lednik Mussala ) is a 3.7 km long and 2 km wide glacier in the southeast of Greenwich Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It flows northeast of Vratsa Peak , east of the central part of Breznik Heights and southwest of a low ridge on Hardy Cove to Bransfield Strait , which it reaches north of Fort Point .
The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2005 after Mount Mussala in the Bulgarian Rila Mountains .
Web links
- Musala Glacier in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)