Owetsch Glacier
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 Map of Smith Island with the Owetsch Glacier (center right) |
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| location | Smith Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Mountains | Imeon Range | |
| length | 3.5 km | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 57 '42 " S , 62 ° 26' 40" W | |
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| drainage | Nikolov Cove | |
The Owetsch Glacier ( Bulgarian ледник Овеч lednik Owetsch ) is a 3.5 km long glacier on Smith Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It flows from the southeast slopes of the Imeon Range east-southeast of Drinov Peak in an east-southeast direction to Nikolov Cove .
Bulgarian scientists mapped it in 2008. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in the same year after the medieval fortress of Ovech in northeastern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Ovech Glacier in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)