Paspal glacier
| Paspal glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Mountains | Forbidden plateau | |
| length | 14.5 km | |
| width | Max. 6.5 km | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 54 ′ S , 61 ° 59 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Green glacier | |
The Paspal Glacier ( Bulgarian ледник Паспал Lednik Paspal ) is a 14.5 km long and 6.5 km wide glacier on the Oskar-II. coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . From the southeastern slopes of the Forbidden Plateau, it flows southeast of the Montgolfier Glacier and west of the Hektoria Glacier in a southeastern direction to the Green Glacier .
British scientists mapped it in 1978 and 1980. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2012 after the town of Paspal in southern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Paspal Glacier in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)