Rusalka glacier
| Rusalka glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| length | 8 kilometers | |
| width | Max. 4.6 km | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 58 '30 " S , 64 ° 57' 20" W | |
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| drainage | Dimitrov Cove | |
The Rusalka Glacier ( Bulgarian ледник Русалка lednik Russalka , in the United Kingdom Lettner Glacier ) is a 8 km long and 4.6 km wide glacier on the Velingrad Peninsula on the Graham Coast of Graham Land in the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows northeast of the Hoek Glacier from the western slopes of Mount Paulcke in a north-westerly direction to Dimitrov Cove on the Harrison Passage , which it reaches south of Biser Point .
British scientists mapped it in 1971. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2010 after the seaside resort of Rusalka on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it after the Austrian ski pioneer Rudolf Lettner (1898–1975), who in 1926 developed the first steel edges on skis.
Web links
- Rusalka Glacier in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)