Balkan Snowfield (Plato Balkan \'pla-to bal-'kan\) is an ice-covered plateau ranging from 150 to 280 m in eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Western Antarctica. It is 3 km long in southwest-northeast direction and 2 km wide, and bounded to the southwest by Krum Rock and upper Contell Glacier, to the southeast and east by the feet of Castillo Nunatak (437 m) and Burdick Ridge, and to the north by the lower course of Perunika Glacier. The field slopes gently northwestwards, its foot being bounded by the hills along Bulgarian Beach.
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The midpoint of the snowfield is located at detailed mapping by the Spanish Servicio Geográfico del Ejército in 1991, and Bulgarian mapping in 1996, 2004 and 2009).
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.
