Targovishte Glacier
| Targovishte Glacier | ||
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 View from the Bransfield Strait of the Targovishte Glacier (center) |
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| location | Greenwich Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Mountains | Breznik Heights | |
| length | 1.6 km | |
| width | ⌀ 0.7 km | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 32 '50 " S , 59 ° 40' 56" W | |
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| drainage | Bransfield Street | |
The Targovishte Glacier ( Bulgarian ледник Търговище lednik Targovishte ) is a 1.6 km long and 0.7 km wide glacier in the southwest of Greenwich Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . In the Breznik Heights it flows east of the Viskyar Ridge and southwest of Vratsa Peak to Bransfield Strait , which it reaches east of Sartorius Point .
The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2005 after the city of Targovishte in northeastern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Targovishte Glacier in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)