Kamchiya Glacier

Location of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.

Kamchiya Glacier from Lyaskovets Peak.

Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Kamchiya Glacier (Lednik Kamchiya \'led-nik 'kam-chi-ya\) is located on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica situated south of the glacial divide between the Drake Passage and Bransfield Strait, and south of Tundzha Glacier, west-southwest of Pimpirev Glacier and east of Verila Glacier. The glacier extends 5 km along an east-west axis and is 2.2 km wide, draining into South Bay between Ereby Point and Memorable Beach.

The feature is named after the Kamchiya River in northeastern Bulgaria.

Location

Kamchiya Glacier is centred at 62°37′22″S 60°31′00″W / 62.62278°S 60.51667°W / -62.62278; -60.51667Coordinates: 62°37′22″S 60°31′00″W / 62.62278°S 60.51667°W / -62.62278; -60.51667. Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009.

Maps

L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.
L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009.

External links

SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.

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