Strandscha glacier
Strandscha glacier | ||
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View from the Bransfield Strait to the Strandscha Glacier (in the background: Spartacus Peak (left), Yavorov Peak (center), Elena Peak (right)) |
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location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
Mountains | Tangra Mountains | |
Coordinates | 62 ° 38 ′ S , 59 ° 54 ′ W | |
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drainage | Bransfield Street | |
Map of the Tangra Mountains with the Strandscha Glacier |
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 .
Web links
- Strandzha Glacier in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)