Trepetlika glacier
Trepetlika glacier | ||
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location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
Mountains | Detroit plateau | |
length | 8 kilometers | |
width | Max. 3.5 km | |
Coordinates | 64 ° 15 ′ 20 ″ S , 60 ° 50 ′ 50 ″ W | |
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drainage | Brialmont Bay |
The Trepetlika Glacier ( Bulgarian педник Трепетлика Lednik Trepetlika ) is an 8 km long and 3.5 km wide glacier on the south side of the Sonketa Ridge in the western foothills of Detroit Plateau on the Danco Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows from the northwest slopes of the Razhana Buttress in a westerly direction to Brialmont Bay , into which it joins north of the Mouillard Glacier .
British scientists mapped it in 1978. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2014 after the town of Trepetlika in southeastern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Trepetlika Glacier in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)