Tumba ice cap
| Tumba ice cap | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| length | 7.7 km | |
| width | Max. 4 km | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 4 ′ 50 ″ S , 60 ° 55 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| drainage | Curtiss Bay and Hughes Bay | |
The Tumba-ice cap ( Bulgarian ледник Тумба Lednik Tumba ) is one kilometer east-west orientation 7.7 long and 4 km wide ice cap at the Davis Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It occupies the western half of the Chawdar Peninsula west of the Samodiwa Glacier and flows north to Curtiss Bay and south to Hughes Bay .
British scientists mapped it in 1978. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2010 after Mount Tumba in the Bulgarian Belasiza Mountains .
Web links
- Tumba Ice Cap in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)