Sea Lion Glacier

Location of Hurd Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.

Sea Lion Glacier in 1995 from Atlantic Club Ridge, with Hesperides Hill in the background.

A 1996 topographic map of central-eastern Livingston Island featuring Sea Lion Glacier.

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

Sea Lion Glacier (Lednik Morski Lav \'led-nik 'mor-ski 'l&v\) is the site of an isolated 350 metres (1,150 ft) long glacier on Hurd Peninsula, eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is located southwest of Hesperides Hill and northwest of Atlantic Club Ridge, separated from the latter by Sea Lion Tarn, and terminating on the South Bay coast.

The glacier, subject of glaciological studies and monitoring for several years since 1993, disappeared completely within a decade.

Location

The midpoint is located at 62°38′46″S 60°22′12″W / 62.64611°S 60.37000°W / -62.64611; -60.37000Coordinates: 62°38′46″S 60°22′12″W / 62.64611°S 60.37000°W / -62.64611; -60.37000 (Bulgarian mapping from a 1995–1996 ground survey).

Maps

L.L. Ivanov. Livingston Island: Central-Eastern Region. Scale 1:25000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 1996.
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. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4

References

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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