Rupite Glacier

Rupite Glacier
Location of Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands
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Location	Smith Island South Shetland Islands
Coordinates	63°00′05″S 62°31′00″W / 63.00139°S 62.51667°W / -63.00139; -62.51667
Length	2.9 kilometres (1.8 mi)
Thickness	unknown
Terminus	Osmar Strait
Status	unknown

Rupite Glacier (Bulgarian: ледник Рупите, romanized: lednik Rupite, IPA: [ˈlɛdnik ˈrupitɛ];

63°00′05″S 62°31′00″W / 63.00139°S 62.51667°W / -63.00139; -62.51667Coordinates: 63°00′05″S 62°31′00″W / 63.00139°S 62.51667°W / -63.00139; -62.51667) is a 2.9 kilometres (1.8 mi) long glacier on Smith Island, South Shetland Islands draining the southeast slopes of Imeon Range east of the summit Mount Foster and southeast of Evlogi Peak. It is situated southeast of Chuprene Glacier, southwest of Pashuk Glacier and northeast of Landreth Glacier, and flows southeastward into Osmar Strait. Bulgarian early mapping in 2008. The glacier is named after the settlement Rupite and the nearby protected area in southwestern Bulgaria.

See also[]

• List of glaciers in the Antarctic
• Glaciology

Maps[]

• Chart of South Shetland including Coronation Island, &c. from the exploration of the sloop Dove in the years 1821 and 1822 by George Powell Commander of the same. Scale ca. 1:200000. London: Laurie, 1822.
• L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2010. ISBN 978-954-92032-9-5 (First edition 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4)
• South Shetland Islands: Smith and Low Islands. Scale 1:150000 topographic map No. 13677. British Antarctic Survey, 2009.
• Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
• L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Smith Island. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017. ISBN 978-619-90008-3-0

References[]

• Rupite Glacier. SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
• Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian, basic data in English)

External links[]

• Rupite Glacier. Copernix satellite image

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