Zlatiya Glacier ( bg, ледник Златия, lednik Zlatiya, ) is the 6.7 km long and 3 km wide glacier on

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in the

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situated north of

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and west of upper

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. It drains west-southwestwards from

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. The glacier is named after the settlements of Zlatiya in Northwestern and Northeastern Bulgaria.

Location

Zlatiya Glacier is centred at . British mapping in 1980 and 2008.

Maps

Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
British Antarctic Territory.
Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 62. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1980.
Brabant Island to Argentine Islands.
Scale 1:250000 topographic map. British Antarctic Survey, 2008.

References

Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.
Antarctic Place-names Commission. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)
Zlatiya Glacier
SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer

External links

Zlatiya Glacier.
Copernix satellite image Brabant-Island

Glaciers of the Palmer Archipelago Bulgaria and the Antarctic Brabant Island {{PalmerArchipelago-glacier-stub

Location

See also

Maps

References

External links