Nosei glacier
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 Map of Smith Island with the Nosei Glacier (top right) |
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| location | Smith Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Mountains | Imeon Range | |
| length | 1.3 km | |
| width | Max. 1 km | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 56 '5 " S , 62 ° 23' 50" W | |
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| drainage | Pakusha Cove | |
The Nosei Glacier ( Bulgarian ледник Носеи lednik Nossei ) is a steep, 1.3 km long and 1 km wide glacier on Smith Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . From the southeastern slopes of the Imeon Range, it flows east of the upper section of Dalgopol Glacier , southeast of Kongur Glacier and southwest of Ritja Glacier between Mezek Peak and Mount Christi in an easterly direction to the head end of Pakusha Cove on Boyd Strait .
Bulgarian scientists mapped it in 2009. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2015 after the town of Noseite in northern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Nosei Glacier in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)