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Å korpil Glacier (, ) is the 12 km long and 10 km wide glacier on
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.
Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.
basic data
in English)
SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
Å korpil Glacier.
Copernix satellite image Bulgaria and the Antarctic Glaciers of Loubet Coast {{LoubetCoast-glacier-stub
Å korpil Glacier (, ) is the 12 km long and 10 km wide glacier on Pernik Peninsula
Pernik Peninsula (, ) is the ice-covered peninsula projecting 40 km in northwest direction from Loubet Coast on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula. It is bounded by Darbel Bay to the northeast, Lallemand Fjord to the west and Crystal Sou ...
, Loubet Coast
Loubet Coast is the portion of the west coast of Graham Land in Antarctic Peninsula, extending 158 km between Cape Bellue to the northeast and Bourgeois Fjord to the southwest. South of Loubet Coast is Fallières Coast, north is Graham Coa ...
on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula
The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martin 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 Antarctica.
...
, situated northeast of Stefan Ice Piedmont and W of Solun Glacier. It drains the north slopes of Protector Heights, and flows northwards into Darbel Bay
Darbel Bay () is a bay wide, indenting the west coast of Graham Land between Stresher Peninsula and Pernik Peninsula. Entered southwest of Cape Bellue and northeast of Cape Rey. The glaciers Widmark Ice Piedmont, Cardell, Erskine, Hopki ...
east of Madell Point.
The glacier is named after the Czech
Czech may refer to:
* Anything from or related to the Czech Republic, a country in Europe
** Czech language
** Czechs, the people of the area
** Czech culture
** Czech cuisine
* One of three mythical brothers, Lech, Czech, and Rus
*Czech (surnam ...
Bulgarian archeologist Karel Å korpil
Karel Václav Škorpil (; 15 May 18599 March 1944) was a Czechs, Czech-Bulgarian archaeologist and museum worker credited along with his brother Hermann Škorpil, Hermann with the establishment of those two disciplines in Bulgaria.
Born in the c ...
(1859–1944).
Location
Å korpil Glacier is centred at .British
British may refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies.
* British national identity, the characteristics of British people and culture ...
mapping in 1976.
Maps
* British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 66 66. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1976.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 (Bulgaria), Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria.
The Commis ...
. (details in Bulgarianbasic data
in English)
SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
External links
Å korpil Glacier.
Copernix satellite image Bulgaria and the Antarctic Glaciers of Loubet Coast {{LoubetCoast-glacier-stub