Yakoruda Glacier

Location of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands.

Yakoruda Glacier (in the background) from Ravda Peak area, Livingston Island, with Huron Glacier and McFarlane Strait in the foreground.

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

Yakoruda Glacier (Lednik Yakoruda \'led-nik ya-ko-'ru-da\) is a glacier on the west slopes of Dryanovo Heights, Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica situated west of Teteven Glacier and northwest of Murgash Glacier. It extends 3.5 km in north-south direction and 2.5 km in east-west direction, is bounded by Greaves Peak, Hrabar Nunatak and Crutch Peak to the north, Lloyd Hill to the east and Kerseblept Nunatak to the south, and drains westwards into Berende Cove, McFarlane Strait.

The feature is named after the town of Yakoruda in southwestern Bulgaria.

Location

Yakoruda Glacier is centred at 62°28′30″S 59°56′37″W / 62.47500°S 59.94361°W / -62.47500; -59.94361Coordinates: 62°28′30″S 59°56′37″W / 62.47500°S 59.94361°W / -62.47500; -59.94361 (Bulgarian survey Tangra 2004/05 and 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. 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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