Ranuli Piedmont Glacier
| Ranuli Piedmont Glacier | ||
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| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sentinel Range , Ellsworth Mountains | |
| Type | Foreland glacier | |
| length | 13.5 km | |
| width | Max. 5.1 km | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 10 ′ S , 84 ° 40 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Rutford Ice Stream , Young Glacier, and Ellen Glacier | |
The Ranuli-Piedmont Glacier ( Bulgarian ледник Ранули lednik Ranuli ) is a south-southeast-north-northwestern extension 13.5 km long and 5.1 km wide foreland glacier in the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . On the east side of the Sentinel Range in the Ellsworth Mountains, it drains the eastern slopes of the Barnes Ridge and feeds the Rutford Ice Current in an east-northeast direction , the Young Glacier to the north and the Ellen Glacier to the south .
American scientists mapped it in 1988. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2012 after the ancient town of Ranuli in southeastern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Ranuli Ice Piedmont in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)