Sestrimo Glacier

Sestrimo Glacier (Bulgarian: ледник Сестримо, romanized: lednik Sestrimo, IPA: [ˈlɛdnik ˈsɛstrimo]) is the 11 km long and 4 km wide glacier on the northwest side of Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula. Situated southwest of Ogoya Glacier, west-northwest of Broad Valley and north of Cugnot Ice Piedmont. Draining the north slopes of Windy Gap, and flowing northwards east of Mount D'Urville and west of Argentino (Guerrero) Peak to enter Lafond Bay in Bransfield Strait south of Cockerell Peninsula.

Sestrimo Glacier
Location of Trinity Peninsula in the Antarctic Peninsula
Location of Sestrimo in Antarctica
LocationTrinity Peninsula
Coordinates63°30′S 58°08′W
Length11 nmi (20 km; 13 mi)
Width4 nmi (7 km; 5 mi)
Thicknessunknown
TerminusLafond Bay
Statusunknown

The glacier is named after the settlement of Sestrimo in southern Bulgaria.

Location

Sestrimo Glacier is located at 63°30′00″S 58°08′00″W. British-German mapping in 1996.

See also

Maps
  • Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.
  • Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly updated.

References

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


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