Magura Glacier
| Magura Glacier | |
|---|---|
 Location of Tangra Mountains on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands | |
  Location of Maguea Glacier in Antarctica  Magura Glacier (Antarctica) | |
| Location | Livingston Island South Shetland Islands |
| Coordinates | 62°39′55″S 60°00′00″W / 62.66528°S 60.00000°W |
| Length | 3.5 nautical miles (6.5 km; 4.0 mi) |
| Width | 1 nautical mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) |
| Thickness | unknown |
| Terminus | Bransfield Strait |
| Status | unknown |
Magura Glacier (
Helmet Peak to the northwest, Plovdiv Peak and Shishman Peak to the north, and Devin Saddle and Kuber Peak to the northeast. The glacier extends 3.5 km in southwest-northeast direction and 1.9 km in northwest-southeast direction, and flows southeastward into Bransfield Strait
.
The feature is named after Magura Cave in Bulgaria.
Location
Magura Glacier is centred at 62°39′55″S 60°00′00″W / 62.66528°S 60.00000°W (Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009).
See also
Maps
- South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Sheet W 62 60. Tolworth, UK, 1968.
- South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Sheet W 62 58. Tolworth, UK, 1968.
- Islas Livingston y Decepción. Mapa topográfico a escala 1:100000. Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército, 1991.
- S. Soccol, D. Gildea and J. Bath. Livingston Island, Antarctica. Scale 1:100000 satellite map. The Omega Foundation, USA, 2004.
- L.L. Ivanov et al., Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands (from English Strait to Morton Strait, with illustrations and ice-cover distribution), 1:100000 scale topographic map, Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, Sofia, 2005
- L.L. Ivanov. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4)
- Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
- L.L. Ivanov. ISBN 978-619-90008-3-0
- A. Kamburov and L. Ivanov. ISBN 978-619-90008-6-1
References
- Magura Glacier SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
- Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
External links
- Magura Glacier. Copernix satellite image
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.
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