Teteven glacier

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Teteven glacier
View from the Aitcho Islands to the Teteven Glacier

View from the Aitcho Islands to the Teteven Glacier

location Greenwich Island , South Shetland Islands
Mountains Dryanovo Heights
length 3.5 km
width ⌀ 7 km
Coordinates 62 ° 27 '38 "  S , 59 ° 52' 21"  W Coordinates: 62 ° 27 '38 "  S , 59 ° 52' 21"  W
Teteven Glacier (South Shetland Islands)
Teteven glacier
drainage Drake Street
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The Tetewen Glacier ( Bulgarian ледник Тетевен lednik Tetewen ) is a north-south 3.5 km long 7 km wide glacier in the north of Greenwich Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It flows from the northern slopes of Dryanovo Heights to the Drake Passage , which he among the Crutch Peaks and the unvereisten area at Agüedo Point reached.

The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2005 after the Bulgarian city of Teteven in the central Balkan Mountains

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