Tarnowo Piedmont Glacier
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 View from the Bransfield Strait to the Tarnowo Piedmont Glacier |
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| location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 45 ′ S , 60 ° 14 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Bransfield Street | |
The Tarnowo Piedmont Glacier ( Bulgarian Ледник Търново Lednik Tarnovo ) is a foreland glacier on the south coast of Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It lies between Barnard Point in the west and the Prespa Glacier in the east. It is bounded to the north and west by the southern foothills of Mount Friesland .
The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2002 after Tarnowo , capital of the Second Bulgarian Empire .
Web links
- Tarnovo Ice Piedmont in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tarnovo Ice Piedmont on geographic.org (English)