Rissimina glacier
| Rissimina glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Mountains | Lovech Heights | |
| length | 10 km | |
| width | Max. 4.5 km | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 55 ′ 0 ″ S , 61 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| drainage | Weddell Sea | |
The Rissimina Glacier ( Bulgarian ледник Рисимина Lednik Rissimina ) is a 10 km long and 4.55 km wide glacier on the Nordenskjöld Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . In Lovech Heights it flows from the southeast slopes of Mount Moriya in an east-southeast direction and flows west of the Pedersen Nunatak into the Weddell Sea .
British scientists mapped it in 1978. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2012 after the Rissimina Cave in northwestern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Risimina Glacier in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)