Tschumerna glacier
| Tschumerna glacier | ||
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| location | Brabant Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Mountains | Stavertsi Ridge | |
| length | 2.2 km | |
| width | Max. 1.9 km | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 8 ′ 10 ″ S , 62 ° 6 ′ 20 ″ W | |
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| drainage | Strait between the Brabant Island and Liège Island | |
The Tschumerna Glacier ( Bulgarian ледник Чумерна lednik Tschumerna ) is a 2.2 km long and 1.9 km wide glacier on the Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . On the north coast of the Albena Peninsula, it flows from the Stavertsi Ridge in a north-westerly direction to the strait between Brabant Island and Liège Island , which it reaches east of Mount Morgagni .
The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2010 after the Tschumerna , at 1536 m after the Botew the second highest mountain in the Balkan Mountains in Bulgaria .
Web links
- Chumerna Glacier in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)