Murgash Glacier

Murgash Glacier: Location of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands.

Murgash Glacier

Murgash Glacier (Lednik Murgash \'led-nik mur-'gash\)is the 3.4 km long and 3.2 km wide glacier situated east and southeast of Lloyd Hill, west of Tile Ridge and northwest of Hebrizelm Hill on Greenwich Island, in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It drains southwards into Kramolin Cove in McFarlane Strait between Yovkov Point and Kaspichan Point.

The glacier is named after Murgash Peak in the western Balkan Mountains, Bulgaria.

Contents

1 Location

2 See also

3 Maps

4 References

Location

The glacier's midpoint is located at 62°29′50″S 59°52′10″W / 62.49722°S 59.86944°W / -62.49722; -59.86944Coordinates: 62°29′50″S 59°52′10″W / 62.49722°S 59.86944°W / -62.49722; -59.86944.

See also

List of glaciers in the Antarctic

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 Gazetteer of Antarctica.

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

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