Poduene Glacier

Location of Pefaur (Ventimiglia) Peninsula on Danco Coast, Antarctic Peninsula.

Poduene Glacier (Bulgarian: ледник Подуене, ‘Lednik Poduene’ \'led-nik po-'du-e-ne\) is the 3.3 km long and 2.4 km wide glacier on Pefaur (Ventimiglia) Peninsula, Danco Coast on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula, situated west of Agalina Glacier. It drains the north slopes of Mount Zeppelin, and flows northwestwards into Gerlache Strait east of Eckener Point.

The glacier is named after the settlement of Poduene in Western Bulgaria, now part of the city of Sofia.

Location

Poduene Glacier is centred at 64°26′30″S 61°32′00″W / 64.44167°S 61.53333°W / -64.44167; -61.53333Coordinates: 64°26′30″S 61°32′00″W / 64.44167°S 61.53333°W / -64.44167; -61.53333. British mapping in 1978.

Maps

British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 60. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1978.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.

References

Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

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

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