Snepole Piedmont Glacier
| Snepole Piedmont Glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Type | Foreland glacier | |
| length | 13 km | |
| width | Max. 7.5 km | |
| Coordinates | 63 ° 53 ′ S , 58 ° 33 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Prince Gustav Canal | |
The Snepole-Piedmont Glacier ( Bulgarian ледник Знеполе Lednik Snepole ) is a 13 km long and 7.5 km wide foothills glacier on Trinity Peninsula of Graham lands north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It lies south of the Victory Glacier and northeast of the Dreatin Glacier , is bounded to the north by the Kondofrey Heights and to the west by a 5.2 km long ridge including Mount Bradley and flows in a south-easterly direction to the Prince Gustav Canal .
German and British scientists carried out its mapping in 1996. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2010 after the Snepole region in western Bulgaria .
Web links
- Znepole Ice Piedmont in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)