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Kolosh Glacier ( bg, ледник Колош, lednik Kolosh, ) is the 6.7 km long and 3.6 km wide glacier on
Magnier Peninsula Magnier Peninsula is the mostly ice-covered peninsula projecting 18 km in northwest direction from Graham Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica. It is 17 km wide between Leroux Bay to the northeast and Bigo Bay to the southwest. Magnier Peaks rise ...
, Graham Coast on the west side of
Antarctic Peninsula The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martín in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctic ...
, situated south of
Nesla Glacier Nesla Glacier ( bg, ледник Несла, lednik Nesla, ) is the 6.2 km (3.2 mi) long and 2 km (1.2 mi) wide glacier on Magnier Peninsula, Graham Coast on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula, situated southwest of Muldava Glacier and ...
. It drains the west slopes of
Lisiya Ridge Lisiya Ridge ( bg, Лисийски хребет, ‘Lisiyski Hrebet’ \li-'siy-ski 'hre-bet\) is the ice-covered ridge rising to over 2100 mMount Bigo Mount Bigo () is a 1,980 m mountain in Lisiya Ridge on Magnier Peninsula, Graham Coast in Graham Land, standing immediately southwest of Mount Perchot at the head of Bigo Bay. It was discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition of 1908–10 and ...
, and flows northwestwards into
Bigo Bay Bigo Bay () is a bay long and wide, indenting the west coast of Graham Land between Cape Garcia and Magnier Peninsula surmounted by the Magnier Peaks and Lisiya Ridge. The French Antarctic Expedition, 1908–10, first sighted this bay but ch ...
next south of the terminus of Nesla Glacier. The glacier is named after Kolosh Peak in Konyavska Mountain, Western Bulgaria.


Location

Kolosh Glacier is centred at . British mapping in 1971.


Maps

* British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 65 64. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1971.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.


References


Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.
Antarctic Place-names Commission The Antarctic Place-names Commission was established by the Bulgarian Antarctic Institute in 1994, and since 2001 has been a body affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria. The Commission approves Bulgarian place names in ...
. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)
SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica


External links


Kolosh Glacier.
Copernix satellite image Bulgaria and the Antarctic Glaciers of Graham Coast {{GrahamCoast-glacier-stub