Struma Glacier
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 View over the Struma Glacier with Sliven Peak (left) to Moon Bay with Half Moon Island and Greenwich Island in the background |
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| location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| length | 4.8 km | |
| width | Max. 1.5 km | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 36 ′ 25 ″ S , 60 ° 7 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| drainage | Moon Bay | |
The Struma Glacier ( Bulgarian ледник Струма lednik Struma ) is a 4.8 km long and 1.5 km wide glacier in the east of Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It borders in the north on the Melnik Ridge , the Yankov Gap in the west and the Bowles Ridge in the south and flows eastward to Moon Bay , which it reaches south of Sindel Point and north of Elemag Point .
Bulgarian scientists mapped it in the course of surveying the Tangra Mountains between 2004 and 2005 and in 2009. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2004 after the Struma River in southwestern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Struma Glacier in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)