Peschtera glacier
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 View from the shores of False Bay over the Peschtara Glacier to MacKay Peak |
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| location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Mountains | Tangra Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 42 ′ S , 60 ° 18 ′ W | |
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| drainage | False Bay | |
The Peschtera Glacier ( Bulgarian Ледник Пещера Lednik Peschtera ) is a glacier on the south coast of Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It flows from the northeast flank of MacKay Peak in a northwest direction to False Bay , which it reaches west of the southern entrance to Inepta Cove .
The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2002 after the Bulgarian city of Peschtera .
Web links
- Peshtera Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Peshtera Glacier on geographic.org (English)