Palilula Glacier

Palilula Glacier
Location of Brabant Island in the Antarctic Peninsula region
Location of Palilula in Antarctica
Location	Palmer Archipelago
Coordinates	64°11′10″S 62°28′30″W / 64.18611°S 62.47500°W / -64.18611; -62.47500
Length	2 nmi (4 km; 2 mi)
Width	0.5 nmi (1 km; 1 mi)
Thickness	unknown
Terminus	Lanusse Bay
Status	unknown

Palilula Glacier (Bulgarian: ледник Палилула, ‘Lednik Palilula’ \'led-nik pa-'li-lu-la\) is the 4 km long and 1.1 km wide steep valley glacier on Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica, situated south of Ralitsa Glacier, southwest of Paré Glacier and northwest of Gorichane Glacier. It drains the southwest slopes of Mount Rokitansky in Stribog Mountains, and flows south-southwestwards into Lanusse Bay east of Driencourt Point and northwest of Baykal Point.

The glacier is named after the settlement of Palilula in Northwestern Bulgaria.

Location

Palilula Glacier is centred at 64°11′10″S 62°28′30″W / 64.18611°S 62.47500°W / -64.18611; -62.47500Coordinates: 64°11′10″S 62°28′30″W / 64.18611°S 62.47500°W / -64.18611; -62.47500. British mapping in 1980 and 2008.

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 64 62. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1980.
• Brabant Island to Argentine Islands. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. British Antarctic Survey, 2008.

References

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

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

Brabant Island seen from northeast, with Anvers Island (on the right) and Antarctic Peninsula in the background.