Palilula glacier
| Palilula glacier | ||
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| location | Brabant Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Mountains | Stribog Mountains | |
| length | 4 km | |
| width | Max. 1.1 km | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 11 '10 " S , 62 ° 28' 30" W | |
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| drainage | Lanusse Bay | |
The Palilula Glacier ( Bulgarian ледник Палилула lednik Palilula ) is a 4 km long and 1.1 km wide glacier on the Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows south of the Raliza Glacier , southwest of the Paré Glacier and northwest of the Goritschane Glacier from the southwest slopes of Mount Rokitansky in a south-southwest direction to Lanusse Bay , into which it joins northwest of Baykal Point .
British scientists mapped it in 1980 and 2008. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2015 after the town of Palilula in northwestern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Palilula Glacier in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)