Debelt Glacier

Location of Varna Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.

Debelt Glacier from Ongal Peak.

The Debelt Glacier (Lednik Debelt \'led-nik 'de-belt\) sits on Varna Peninsula, Livingston Island draining the southeastern slopes of Vidin Heights into Moon Bay between Edinburgh Hill and Helis Nunatak. The glacier extends three km in an east-west direction, and 1.5 km in north-south direction.

62°31′55″S 60°03′46″W (62.5319° S; 60.0628° W)

Bulgarian topographic survey Tangra 2004/05 and mapping in 2005 and 2009.

Named after the settlement of Debelt in Southeastern Bulgaria, successor of the ancient town of Deultum.

Registered in the SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

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

Reference

• SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

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