Musina Glacier

Location of Oscar II Coast on Antarctic Peninsula.

Musina Glacier (Bulgarian: ледник Мусина, ‘Lednik Musina’ \'led-nik 'mu-si-na\) is the 7 km long and 3.5 km wide glacier on Oscar II Coast, Graham Land in Antarctica situated south of Green Glacier and north of Evans Glacier. Draining eastwards between the two principal branches of Rugate Ridge to flow into Vaughan Inlet, Weddell Sea.

The feature is named after the settlement of Musina in northern Bulgaria.

Location

Musina Glacier is centred at 65°01′30″S 61°51′00″W / 65.02500°S 61.85000°W / -65.02500; -61.85000Coordinates: 65°01′30″S 61°51′00″W / 65.02500°S 61.85000°W / -65.02500; -61.85000.

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References

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


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