Gramada Glacier
Gramada Glacier (Bulgarian: ледник Грамада, ‘Lednik Gramada’ \'led-nik gra-'ma-da\) is a 3 km long glacier on Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica draining the southeast slopes of Imeon Range east of Riggs Peak, southeast of Madan Saddle and south of Neofit Peak. It is situated southwest of Armira Glacier and northeast of Letnitsa Glacier, and flows southeastward into Brashlyan Cove on Osmar Strait. Bulgarian early mapping in 2009. The glacier is named after the town of Gramada in northwestern Bulgaria.
Coordinates: 63°02′05″S 62°34′34″W / 63.03472°S 62.57611°W
Maps
- 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
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.
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