Blagun Glacier
Blagun Glacier | |
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Location of Blagun Glacier in Antarctica | |
Location | Graham Land |
Coordinates | 66°51′00″S 66°03′20″W / 66.85000°S 66.05556°W / -66.85000; -66.05556 |
Length | 7 nmi (13 km; 8 mi) |
Width | 1 nmi (2 km; 1 mi) |
Thickness | unknown |
Terminus | Wilkinson Glacier |
Status | unknown |
Blagun Glacier (Bulgarian: ледник Благун, romanized: lednik Blagun, IPA: [ˈlɛdniɡ bɫɐˈɡun]) is the 13 km long and 2.3 km wide glacier on Pernik Peninsula, Loubet Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica, situated southwest of Dolie Glacier and northeast of Peyna Glacier. It flows northwestwards between and Hodge Ridge, and joins Wilkinson Glacier.
The glacier is named after the settlement of Blagun in Southern Bulgaria.
Location[]
Blagun Glacier is centred at
See also[]
- List of glaciers in the Antarctic
- Glaciology
Maps[]
- Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
- British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 66 64. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1976.
- British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 66 66. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1976.
References[]
- Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)
- Blagun Glacier. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
External links[]
- Blagun Glacier. Copernix satellite image
This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.
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Glaciers of Graham Land | |
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Antarctic Peninsula |
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Adelaide Island |
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James Ross Island |
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Palmer Archipelago |
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Trinity Peninsula |
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- Bulgaria and the Antarctic
- Glaciers of Loubet Coast
- Articles containing Bulgarian-language text
- Coordinates on Wikidata