Contell Glacier
Location of Hurd Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Topographic map of central-eastern Livingston Island featuring Contell Glacier.
Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.
Contell Glacier is the 2 km (1.2 mi) long and 700 m (2,300 ft) wide glacier on Hurd Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica bounded by Atlantic Club Ridge to the northwest, Krum Rock to the north, Balkan Snowfield to the northeast, and Charrúa Ridge and Charrúa Gap to the south. It is crescent-shaped, running northwestwards in its upper course, then between Charrúa Ridge and Krum Rock turning west-southwestwards to flow into South Bay north of Johnsons Dock.
The feature was first named on a 1988 Spanish chart as Glaciar Contell.
Location
The midpoint of the glacier is located at 62°39′04″S 60°21′00″W / 62.65111°S 60.35000°W (Detailed Spanish mapping in 1991, and Bulgarian mapping in 1996, 2005 and 2009).
Maps
- Isla Livingston: Península Hurd. Mapa topográfico de escala 1:25 000. Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército, 1991.
- L.L. Ivanov. Livingston Island: Central-Eastern Region. Scale 1:25000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 1996.
- 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
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