Murgash Glacier

Location of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands.

Murgash Glacier

Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Murgash Glacier (Lednik Murgash \'led-nik mur-'gash\)is the 3.4 km long and 3.2 km wide glacier on Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica situated southeast of Yakoruda Glacier, south of Teteven Glacier, southwest of Traub Glacier and west-northwest of Bravo Glacier. It is bounded by Lloyd Hill on the northwest, Tile Ridge on the east and Hebrizelm Hill on the southeast, and drains southwards into Kramolin Cove in McFarlane Strait between Yovkov Point and Kaspichan Point.

The glacier is named after Murgash Peak in the western Balkan Mountains, Bulgaria.

Location

Murgash Glacier is centred at 62°29′50″S 59°52′10″W / 62.49722°S 59.86944°W / -62.49722; -59.86944Coordinates: 62°29′50″S 59°52′10″W / 62.49722°S 59.86944°W / -62.49722; -59.86944. Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009.

See also

List of glaciers in the Antarctic

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. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4

References

SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

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

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