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Yamen Glacier ( bg, ледник Ямен, lednik Yamen, ) is the 10 km long and 4 km wide glacier in
Newcomer Glacier.
Scale 1:250 000 topographic map. Reston, Virginia: US Geological Survey, 1961.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly updated.
Yamen Glacier
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer
Basic data
(English)
Yamen Glacier.
Copernix satellite image * Glaciers of Ellsworth Land Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{EllsworthLand-glacier-stub
Yamen Glacier ( bg, ледник Ямен, lednik Yamen, ) is the 10 km long and 4 km wide glacier in Gromshin Heights
Gromshin Heights ( bg, Громшински възвишения, ‘Gromshinski Vazvisheniya’ \'grom-shin-ski v&-zvi-'she-ni-ya\) are the heights rising to 2731 m
on the east side of northern Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica
Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest contine ...
. It is situated northeast of Vicha Glacier
Vicha Glacier ( bg, ледник Вича, lednik Vicha, ) is the 27 km long and 6 km wide glacier in Gromshin Heights on the east side of northern Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. It is situated northeast of Newcome ...
. The glacier drains northeastwards along the north slopes of Branishte Peak
Branishte Peak ( bg, връх Бранище, vrah Branishte, ) is the ice-covered peak rising to 1888 mRutford Ice Stream
Rutford Ice Stream () is a major Antarctic ice stream, about long and over wide, which drains southeastward between the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains and Fletcher Ice Rise into the southwest part of Ronne Ice Shelf. Named by US-ACAN ...
.
The glacier is named after the settlement of Yamen in Western Bulgaria.
Location
Yamen Glacier is centred at . US mapping in 1961.See also
*List of glaciers in the Antarctic
There are many glaciers in the Antarctic. This set of lists does not include ice sheets, ice caps or ice fields, such as the Antarctic ice sheet, but includes glacial features that are defined by their flow, rather than general bodies of ice. Th ...
* 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, climato ...
Maps
Newcomer Glacier.
Scale 1:250 000 topographic map. Reston, Virginia: US Geological Survey, 1961.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly updated.
References
Yamen Glacier
SCAR
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Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
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 th ...
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 ...
(Bulgarian)
Basic data
(English)
External links
Yamen Glacier.
Copernix satellite image * Glaciers of Ellsworth Land Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{EllsworthLand-glacier-stub