Letnitsa Glacier ( bg, ледник Летница, lednik Letnitsa, ) 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 195 ...

, 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

Organa Peak Organa Peak ( bg, връх Органа, vrah Organa, ) is a peak rising to 1270 m in Imeon Range on Smith Island, South Shetland Islands. Situated 6.8 km northeast of Cape James, and 1.85 km south-southwest of Riggs Peak. Overlooki ...

and south 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 ...

. It is situated southwest of

Gramada Glacier Gramada Glacier ( bg, ледник Грамада, lednik Gramada, ) is a long glacier on Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica draining the southeast slopes of Imeon Range east of Riggs Peak, southeast of Madan Saddle and s ...

and northeast of

Kremena Ice Piedmont Kremena Ice Piedmont ( bg, ледник Кремена, lednik Kremena, ) is a 2.4 km long and 2.7 km wide glacier on Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica draining the southeast slopes of Imeon Range south of Organa Pe ...

, and flows southeastward into

Hisarya Cove Hisarya Cove ( bg, залив Хисаря, zaliv Hisarya, ) is the 950 m wide cove on the northwest side of Osmar Strait indenting for 500 m the southeast coast of Smith Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica south of Dupnitsa Point a ...

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 ...

. Bulgarian early mapping in 2009. The glacier is named after the town of

Letnitsa Letnitsa ( bg, Летница , also transliterated ''Letnitza'', ''Letnica'') is a town in central northern Bulgaria, part of Lovech Province. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Letnitsa Municipality and lies in the northeastern ...

in northern

Bulgaria Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedon ...

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.

References

Letnitsa Glacier.
SCAR

Composite Antarctic Gazetteer The Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (CGA) of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) is the authoritative international gazetteer containing all Antarctic toponyms published in national gazetteers, plus basic information about t ...

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)

External links

Letnitsa Glacier.
Copernix satellite image Smith-Cliff-Frohlich

Glaciers of Smith Island (South Shetland Islands) Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{SmithIsland-glacier-stub

Maps

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