Chernom Glacier
| Chernom Glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| length | 5.6 km | |
| width | Max. 2.2 km | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 38 '30 " S , 64 ° 2' 50" W | |
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| drainage | Leroux Bay | |
The Chernomen Glacier ( Bulgarian ледник Черномен lednik Tschernomen ) is a 5.6 km long and 2.2 km wide glacier on the Barison Peninsula on the Graham Coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows south-south-west of the Butamja Glacier and west -south - west of the Talew Glacier in a north-westerly direction to Leroux Bay , which it reaches southeast of Eijkman Point .
British scientists mapped it in 1971. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2010 after the town of Chernomen in southern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Chernomen Glacier in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)