Sirma Glacier
| Sirma Glacier | ||
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| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sentinel Range , Ellsworth Mountains | |
| length | 7 km | |
| width | Max. 4 km | |
| Coordinates | 78 ° 47 ′ 0 ″ S , 85 ° 4 ′ 40 ″ W | |
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| drainage | Nimitz glacier | |
The Sirma Glacier ( Bulgarian ледник Сирма lednik Sirma ) is a 7 km long and 4 km wide glacier in the West Antarctic Ellsworthland . On the west side of the southern Sentinel Range in the Ellsworth Mountains, it flows south of the Bolgrad Glacier from Mount Southwick , Mount Milton and Mount Inderbitzen in a west-southwest direction to the Nimitz Glacier .
American scientists mapped it in 1988. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2010 after the Bulgarian rebel leader Sirma Wojwoda (1773-1858).
Web links
- Sirma Glacier in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)