Kongur Glacier
Location of Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Topographic map of Smith Island.
Kongur Glacier (Bulgarian: ледник Конгур, ‘Lednik Kongur’ \'led-nik 'kon-gur\) is a 2.7 km long glacier draining the northwest slopes of Imeon Range on Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is situated northeast of Dalgopol Glacier and southwest of Saparevo Glacier, and flows west of Mount Christi into Drake Passage. Bulgarian early mapping in 2009. The glacier is named after the peak and nature reserve of Kongur on Belasitsa Mountain in southwestern Bulgaria.
Coordinates: 62°54′23″S 62°25′48″W / 62.90639°S 62.43000°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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