Wit Piedmont Glacier
| Wit Piedmont Glacier | ||
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| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Sentinel Range , Ellsworth Mountains | |
| length | 12 km | |
| width | Max. 6 km | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 54 ′ S , 85 ° 12 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Rutford Ice Stream | |
The Wit-Piedmont Glacier ( Bulgarian ледник Вит Lednik Wit ) is a km in the north-south dimension 12 long and 6km wide glacier in West Antarctic Ellsworth Land . In the Sostra Heights of the northern Sentinel Range in the Ellsworth Mountains, it lies north of the end of the Embree Glacier , east of Bracken Peak , southwest of the Anchialos Glacier and south of the end of the Newcomer Glacier . It flows east to the Rutford Ice Stream .
American scientists mapped it in 1961. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2014 for the Wit River in northern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Vit Ice Piedmont in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)