Medven Glacier

Medven Glacier: Location of Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.

Medven Glacier from northern Friesland Ridge.

Medven Glacier (Lednik Medven \'led-nik 'med-ven\) is a 2.5 km long and 1.5 km wide glacier bounded by the east slopes of Oryahovo Heights on Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and draining eastwards into Prisoe Cove, Hero Bay between Remetalk Point and Agüero Point.

The glacier is named after the settlement of Medven in the eastern Balkan Mountains, Bulgaria.

Location

The glacier is centred at 62°32′50″S 60°42′50″W / 62.54722°S 60.71389°W / -62.54722; -60.71389.

Map

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

Reference

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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