Werila glacier
| Werila glacier | ||
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 Mouth of the Werila Glacier in Walker Bay (right: Ustra Peak ) |
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| location | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| length | 4 km | |
| width | ⌀ 13 km | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 36 ′ 15 ″ S , 60 ° 41 ′ 14 ″ W | |
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| drainage | Walker Bay | |
The Werila Glacier ( Bulgarian ледник Верила lednik Werila ) is a roughly crescent-shaped, north-south orientation 4 km long and 13 km wide glacier on Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is bounded to the west by the Rotch Dome , to the north by the Snow Peak and to the southeast by the Ustra Peak . It flows south to Walker Bay , into which it flows between John Beach and Hannah Point .
The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2005 after Mount Werila in western Bulgaria .
Web links
- Verila Glacier in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)