Pejna glacier
| Pejna glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| length | 11.4 km | |
| width | Max. 3 km | |
| Coordinates | 66 ° 54 ′ S , 66 ° 9 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Murphy Glacier and Wilkinson Glacier | |
The Pejna Glacier ( Bulgarian ледник Пейна Lednik Pejna ) is a 11.4 km long and 3 km wide glacier on Pernik Peninsula on Loubet Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows southwest of the Blagun Glacier and northeast of the Murphy Glacier along Lane Ridge in a north-westerly direction and joins the Murphy and Wilkinson Glaciers .
British scientists mapped it in 1976. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2015 after the town of Pejna in northern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Peyna Glacier in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)