Sigmen Glacier

Sigmen Glacier
Location of Liège Island in the Antarctic Peninsula region
Location of Sigmen in Antarctica
Location	Palmer Archipelago
Coordinates	64°01′S 61°56′W / 64.017°S 61.933°W / -64.017; -61.933
Length	1.2 nmi (2 km; 1 mi)
Width	1 nmi (2 km; 1 mi)
Thickness	unknown
Terminus	Palakariya Cove
Status	unknown

Sigmen Glacier (Bulgarian: ледник Сигмен, ‘Lednik Sigmen’ \'led-nik 'sig-men\) is a 2.2 km long and 2 km wide glacier draining the northwest slopes of Brugmann Mountains on Liège Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. It is situated northeast of Zbelsurd Glacier and southwest of Shterna Glacier, draining the west-southwest slopes of Vazharov Peak and the northwest slopes of Mount Kozyak, and flows northwestwards to enter Palakariya Cove.

The glacier is named after the settlement of Sigmen in southeastern Bulgaria.

Location

Sigmen Glacier is centred at 64°01′00″S 61°56′00″W / 64.01667°S 61.93333°W / -64.01667; -61.93333Coordinates: 64°01′00″S 61°56′00″W / 64.01667°S 61.93333°W / -64.01667; -61.93333. British mapping in 1978.

See also

• List of glaciers in the Antarctic
• Glaciology

Maps

• British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 60. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, UK, 1978.
• Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.

References

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

External links

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