Perunika Glacier

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Perunika Glacier (Lednik Perunika \'led-nik pe-ru-'ni-ka\) is an 8km long and 2.6km wide (average) roughly crescent-shaped glacier in eastern Livingston Island, Antarctica.

Its head is bounded by Pliska Ridge to the SSW, Nesebar Gap to the S, Wörner Gap to the E, and Bowles Ridge to the NNE. It drains northwestwards between Burdick Ridge and Bowles Ridge, then N of Rezen Knoll turns WSW and flows into the head of Emona Anchorage between Bulgarian Beach and Pimpirev Beach.

The glacier is heavily crevassed in its lower half, receiving ice influx also from Balkan Snowfield and from the part of the island’s ice cap that is located W of Hemus Peak and Gurev Gap and S of Saedinenie Snowfield, and is draining southwards. it exhibits pyroclastic phenomena typical of the region’s glaciology and resulting from volcanic activities at Deception Island not 40 km away.

The glacier was mapped by the Spanish Servicio Geográfico del Ejército in 1991, the lower portion in greater detail. Bulgarian remapping of Perunika Glacier’s terminus from a survey made during the summer of 1995-96; mapping in 2005 from the Bulgarian topographic survey Tangra 2004/05.

Perunika is the name of a village in the Rhodope Mountains. A derivation of Perun, the name of ancient Slavic God.