Urdoviza Glacier

Location of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.

Urdoviza Glacier and Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula in the background, from Catalunyan Saddle; Burdick Ridge in the foreground.

Urdoviza Glacier (Lednik Urdoviza \'led-nik ur-do-'vi-za\) is a glacier bounded by the eastern slopes of Oryahovo Heights on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica and draining eastwards into Stoyanov Cove of Hero Bay between Agüero Point and Sandanski Point. The glacier extends 2.8 km in the east-west direction and 3 km in the north-south direction. The glacier is named after Cape Urdoviza on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast.

Location

The glacier's midpoint is located at 62°31′45″S 60°43′40″W.

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

External links

• SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

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