Strandscha glacier

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Strandscha glacier
View from the Bransfield Strait to the Strandscha Glacier (in the background: Spartacus Peak (left), Yavorov Peak (center), Elena Peak (right))

View from the Bransfield Strait to the Strandscha Glacier (in the background:  Spartacus Peak (left), Yavorov Peak (center), Elena Peak (right))

location Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands
Mountains Tangra Mountains
Coordinates 62 ° 38 ′  S , 59 ° 54 ′  W Coordinates: 62 ° 38 ′  S , 59 ° 54 ′  W
Strandscha Glacier (South Shetland Islands)
Strandscha glacier
drainage Bransfield Street
Map of the Tangra Mountains with the Strandscha Glacier

Map of the Tangra Mountains with the Strandscha Glacier

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The Strandscha Glacier ( Bulgarian ледник Странджа lednik Strandscha ) is a glacier on the Burgas Peninsula in the southeast of Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . In the Delchev Ridge of the Tangra Mountains , it is flanked west by Spartacus Peak and north by Yavorov Peak and Elena Peak . It flows in a south-easterly direction to Bransfieldstrasse .

The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2004 after the Strandscha Mountains in southeastern Bulgaria .

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