Sheravna Glacier
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View across Half Moon Island to the mouth of the Scherawna Glacier in McFarlane Strait . |
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| location | Greenwich Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Mountains | Breznik Heights | |
| length | 1.8 km | |
| width | ⌀ 2 km | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 32 '50 " S , 59 ° 40' 56" W | |
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| drainage | McFarlane Strait | |
The Scherawna Glacier ( Bulgarian ледник Жеравна lednik Scherawna ) is a 1.8 km long and 2 km wide glacier in the southwest of Greenwich Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . In Breznik Heights, it flows east of Razgrad Peak , south of Momchil Peak and west of Viskyar Ridge in a southerly direction to McFarlane Strait , which it reaches between Ephraim Bluff and Sartorius Point .
The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2005 after the town of Scherawna in the east-central part of Bulgaria .
Web links
- Zheravna Glacier in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)