Skapliso glacier
| Skapliso glacier | ||
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| location | Clarence Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Mountains | Urda Ridge | |
| length | 4 km | |
| width | Max. 1.5 km | |
| Coordinates | 61 ° 16 ′ 50 ″ S , 54 ° 11 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| drainage | Southern ocean | |
The Skapliso Glacier ( Bulgarian Ледник Скаплизо Lednik Skapliso ) is a 4 km long and 1.5 km wide glacier on Clarence Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It flows from the slopes of Mount Irving and Duclos-Guyot Bluff on the west side of Urda Ridge south of Giridawa Glacier in a west-north-west direction to the Southern Ocean , which it reaches northeast of Chichil Point .
British scientists mapped it in 1972 and 2009. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2014 after the Thracian town of Skapliso in the south-west of what is now Bulgaria .
Web links
- Skaplizo Glacier in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)