Pimpirev ice wall
| Pimpirev ice wall | ||
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| location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| length | 0.1 km | |
| width | Max. 3.7 km | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 36 '43.2 " S , 60 ° 24' 3.6" W | |
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| drainage | Emona anchorage | |
The Pimpirew ice wall ( Bulgarian Пимпирев скат Pimpirew skat ) was a straight and around 50 m high glacier slope on the south coast of Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It ran over a distance of 3.7 km parallel to the northwest bank of the Emona Anchorage and reached around 100 m inland.
Bulgarian scientists named the ice wall in 1996 after the Bulgarian geologists and polar explorer Christo Pimpirew (* 1953), who between 1993 and 1997 a total of four Bulgarian research campaigns in the Antarctic had passed and previously from 1987 to 1988 on Alexander Island was working .
In 2010 the Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names added the addition "(historical)" to the dataset in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica of the Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research (SCAR), since the slope was meanwhile so inconspicuous by the glacier melt that hardly any an "ice wall" could be talked about.
Web links
- Pimpirev Ice Wall on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pimpirev Ice Wall in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed June 18, 2018
- ↑ Pimpirev Ice Wall (historical) in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed on June 18, 2018