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Ropotamo Glacier ( bg, ледник Ропотамо, lednik Ropotamo, ) is a glacier extending from northeast to southwest and from northwest to southeast on the
Burgas Peninsula
Burgas Peninsula ( bg, полуостров Бургас, poluostrov Burgas, ) is a predominantly ice-covered peninsula forming the east extremity of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica extending 10 km in the east- ...
,
Livingston Island
Livingston Island (Russian name ''Smolensk'', ) is an Antarctic island in the Southern Ocean, part of the South Shetlands Archipelago, a group of Antarctic islands north of the Antarctic Peninsula. It was the first land discovered south of 60 ...
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. The glacier is northeast of
Dobrudzha Glacier, east-southeast of
Iskar Glacier, south of
Sopot Ice Piedmont
Sopot Ice Piedmont ( bg, ледник Сопот, lednik Sopot, ) is an ice piedmont situated on Burgas Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, northeast of Iskar Glacier and north of Ropotamo, Strandzha and Pa ...
and southwest of
Strandzha Glacier
Strandzha Glacier ( bg, ледник Странджа, lednik Strandzha, ) is located on Burgas Peninsula, eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica northeast of Ropotamo Glacier, south of Sopot Ice Piedmont and sout ...
. It is bounded by
Asen Peak and
Delchev Peak
Delchev Peak ( bg, Делчев връх, Delchev vrah, ) is the summit of Delchev Ridge, Tangra Mountains, Livingston Island and rises to approximately 940 m. The peak surmounts Iskar Glacier to the west, Sopot Ice Piedmont to the north, and R ...
to the northwest and north, and flows southeastwards mostly into
Yantra Cove
Yantra Cove ( bg, залив Янтра, zaliv Yantra, ) is a 560 m wide cove in the south coast of the Burgas Peninsula of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica east of St. Evtimiy Crag, southeast of Asen Peak and south-s ...
,
Bransfield Strait
Bransfield Strait or Fleet Sea ( es, Estrecho de Bransfield, Mar de la Flota) is a body of water about wide extending for in a general northeast – southwest direction between the South Shetland Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula.
History ...
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The feature is named after the river
Ropotamo
The Ropotamo ( bg, Ропотамо , from the Ancient Greek word Ροπόταμος ''ropotamos'' meaning "border river") is a river in south-eastern Bulgaria
Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bu ...
in
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 Macedo ...
.
Location
Ropotamo Glacier is centered at . Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009.
See also
*
List of glaciers in the Antarctic
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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
* L.L. Ivanov et al.
Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.
* L.L. Ivanov
Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009.
References
Ropotamo Glacier.SCAR
Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer. Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian
basic datain English)
External links
Ropotamo Glacier.Copernix satellite image
Glaciers of Livingston Island
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