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Gramada Glacier ( bg, ледник Грамада, lednik Gramada, ) is a long glacier on Smith Island in the
South Shetland Islands The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands with a total area of . They lie about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, and between southwest of the nearest point of the South Orkney Islands. By the Antarctic Treaty of 1 ...
, Antarctica draining the southeast slopes of
Imeon Range Imeon Range ( bg, Хребет Имеон, ‘Hrebet Imeon’ \'hre-bet i-me-'on\) () is a mountain range occupying the interior of Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Extending 30 km in southwest-northeast direction bet ...
east of
Riggs Peak Riggs Peak ( bg, връх Ригс, vrah Riggs, ) is a peak rising to 1690 m in Imeon Range on Smith Island, South Shetland Islands. Situated 2.38 km southwest of Neofit Peak, 5.4 km southwest of the summit Mount Foster, and 8.6&nbs ...
, southeast of Madan Saddle and south of Neofit Peak. It is situated southwest of
Armira Glacier Armira Glacier ( bg, ледник Армира, lednik Armira, ) is a long glacier on Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica draining the southeast slopes of Imeon Range southeast of Slaveykov Peak and east of Neofit Peak. I ...
and northeast of Letnitsa Glacier, and flows southeastward into Brashlyan Cove on
Osmar Strait Osmar Strait ( bg, проток Осмар, ‘Protok Osmar’ \'pro-tok os-'mar\) is the wide strait in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica between Smith Island to the northwest and Low Island to the southeast. The strait is named after th ...
. The glacier is named after the town of Gramada in northwestern
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.Gramada Glacier.
SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer


Location

Gramada glacier is centred at . Bulgarian early mapping in 2009.


See also

* List of glaciers in the Antarctic *
Glaciology Glaciology (; ) is the scientific study of glaciers, or more generally ice and natural phenomena that involve ice. Glaciology is an interdisciplinary Earth science that integrates geophysics, geology, physical geography, geomorphology, c ...


Maps


Chart of South Shetland including Coronation Island, &c.
from the exploration of the sloop Dove in the years 1821 and 1822 by George Powell Commander of the same. Scale ca. 1:200000. London: Laurie, 1822. * L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2010. (First edition 2009. )
South Shetland Islands: Smith and Low Islands.
Scale 1:150000 topographic map No. 13677. British Antarctic Survey, 2009.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated. * L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Smith Island. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2017.


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External links


Gramada Glacier
SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.
Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)
Gramada Glacier.
Copernix satellite image Glaciers of Smith Island (South Shetland Islands) Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{SmithIsland-glacier-stub