Chernootschene glacier
| Chernootschene glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Mountains | Forbidden plateau | |
| length | 5 km | |
| width | Max. 2 km | |
| Coordinates | 65 ° 17 ′ 0 ″ S , 62 ° 15 ′ 10 ″ W | |
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| drainage | Spillane Fjord | |
The chernoochene Glacier ( Bulgarian ледник Черноочене Lednik chernoochene ) is a 5 km long and 2 km wide glacier on the Oskar-II. coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows from the southeastern foothills of the Forbidden Plateau south of the Jorum Glacier and northeast of the Crane Glacier in a southeastern direction to the Spillane Fjord , which it reaches west of Mount Birks .
British scientists mapped it in 1976. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2012 after the town of Chernootschene in southern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Chernoochene Glacier in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)