Kamchiya Glacier

Kamchiya Glacier (Lednik Kamchiya \'led-nik 'kam-chi-ya\) is located on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, south of the glacial divide between the Drake Passage and Bransfield Strait, and draining into South Bay between Ereby Point and Memorable Beach. It extends 5 km along an east-west axis, and is 2.2 km wide.

The glacier is named after the Kamchiya River in northeastern Bulgaria.

Location

The glacier is located at .

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.

External links

• SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

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