Urdowisa glacier
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 View from Catalunyan Saddle to the John Paul II Peninsula with the Urdowisa Glacier (center) |
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| location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Mountains | Oryahovo Heights | |
| length | 2.8 km | |
| width | Max. 3 km | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 31 '28 " S , 60 ° 43' 32" W | |
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| drainage | Stoyanov Cove | |
The Urdowisa Glacier ( Bulgarian ледник Урдовиза lednik Urdowisa ) is a 2.8 km long and 3 km wide glacier on the east side of the John Paul II Peninsula of Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It flows from the eastern slopes of Oryahovo Heights in an easterly direction to Stoyanov Cove , into which it joins between Sandanski Point and Agüero Point .
The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2005 after a cape on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast .
Web links
- Urdoviza Glacier in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)