Rhesos glacier
| Rhesos glacier | ||
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| location | Anvers Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Mountains | Trojan Range | |
| length | 7 km | |
| width | Max. 2.5 km | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 31 ′ 35 ″ S , 63 ° 17 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| drainage | Fournier Bay | |
The Rhesos Glacier ( Bulgarian ледник Резос lednik Resos ) is a 7 km long and 2.5 km wide glacier on the Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows southeast of Paris Peak from the eastern slopes of the Trojan Range in a northeast direction to Fournier Bay , which it reaches south of the Thompson Peninsula and north of Predel Point .
The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2009 after the Thracian king Rhesus from the Iliad after Homer .
Web links
- Rhesus Glacier in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)