Rupite glacier
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 Map of Smith Island with the Rupite Glacier (center) |
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| location | Smith Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Mountains | Imeon Range | |
| length | 2.9 km | |
| Coordinates | 63 ° 0 ′ 4 " S , 62 ° 30 ′ 25" W | |
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| drainage | Bransfield Street | |
The Kriwodol Glacier ( Bulgarian ледник Рупите lednik Rupite ) is a 2.9 km long glacier on Smith Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It flows from the southeastern slopes of the Imeon Range east of Mount Foster and southeast of Evlogi Peak in a southeastern direction to the Bransfield Strait .
Bulgarian scientists mapped it in 2008. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in the same year after the village of Rupite in southwestern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Rupite Glacier in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)