Schterna glacier
| Schterna glacier | ||
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| location | Liège Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Mountains | Brugmann Mountains | |
| length | 3.6 km | |
| width | Max. 2.2 km | |
| Coordinates | 63 ° 59 ′ 45 " S , 61 ° 53 ′ 10" W | |
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| drainage | Boisguehenneuc Bay | |
The Schterna Glacier ( Bulgarian ледник Щерна lednik Schterna ) is a 3.6 km long and 2.2 km wide glacier on Liège Island in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows northeast of the Sigmen Glacier from the northern slopes of the Brugmann Mountains in a northerly direction to Boisguehenneuc Bay .
British scientists mapped it in 1978. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2013 after the town of Shterna in southern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Shterna Glacier in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)