Pimpirew Glacier
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 View from Bulgarian Beach across Emona Anchorage Bay to the Pimpirew Glacier |
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| location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| length | 1.8 km | |
| width | Max. 5.5 km | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 36 '25 " S , 60 ° 25' 0" W | |
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| drainage | South Bay | |
The Pimpirew Glacier ( Bulgarian Пимпирев ледник Pimpirew lednik ) is a 1.8 km long and 5.5 km wide glacier on the south coast of Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located west of the Perunika Glacier , east of the Kamchia Glacier and south of the watershed between the Drake Passage and the Bransfield Strait . It flows east-northeast of Ereby Point into South Bay .
Spanish scientists mapped it in 1991, Bulgarian in 1996, 2005 and 2009. In 2005 the Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names changed the original name from 1996 to its current form. It is named after the Bulgarian geologist Christo Pimpirew (* 1953), participant in the first Bulgarian Antarctic expedition (1987–1988) and leader of other campaigns.
Part of the glacier previously flowed into the Emona Anchorage , a side bay of the South Bay, in the form of the Pimpirew ice wall . The ice wall now only exists in remnants due to the glacier melt .
Web links
- Pimpirev Glacier in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pimpirev Ice Wall (historical) in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed on June 18, 2018