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Medven Glacier

Coordinates: 62°32′50″S 60°42′50″W / 62.54722°S 60.71389°W / -62.54722; -60.71389
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Location of Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Medven Glacier from northern Friesland Ridge.
Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.

Medven Glacier (Lednik Medven \'led-nik 'med-ven\) is a 2.5 km long and 1.5 km wide glacier on Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica situated east of Etar Snowfield, south of Urdoviza Glacier and north of Berkovitsa Glacier. It is bounded by the east slopes of Oryahovo Heights and drains eastwards into Prisoe Cove, Hero Bay between Remetalk Point and Agüero Point. Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009.

The glacier is named after the settlement of Medven in the eastern Balkan Mountains, Bulgaria.

Location

The glacier is centred at 62°32′50″S 60°42′50″W / 62.54722°S 60.71389°W / -62.54722; -60.71389.

Map

References

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