Skaplizo Glacier ( bg, ледник Скаплизо, lednik Skaplizo, ) is long and wide glacier on the west side of

Urda Ridge Urda Ridge ( bg, Урдин хребет, ‘Urdin Hrebet’ \'ur-din 'hre-bet\) is the mostly ice-covered ridge occupying the interior of southern Clarence Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It extends 8 km in north-northeast to ...

on Clarence 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 ...

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situated south of

Giridava Glacier Giridava Glacier ( bg, ледник Гиридава, lednik Giridava, ) is long and wide glacier on the west side of Urda Ridge on Clarence Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica situated north of Skaplizo Glacier and southwest of ...

. It drains the slopes of Mount Irving and Duclos-Guyot Bluff, flows west-northwestwards and enters the

Southern Ocean The Southern Ocean, also known as the Antarctic Ocean, comprises the southernmost waters of the World Ocean, generally taken to be south of 60° S latitude and encircling Antarctica. With a size of , it is regarded as the second-small ...

northeast of

Chichil Point Chichil Point ( bg, нос Чичил, ‘Nos Chichil’ \'nos 'chi-chil\) is the rocky point on the southwest coast of Clarence Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica forming the west extremity of the island. The point is named after ...

. The glacier is named after the

Thracian The Thracians (; grc, Θρᾷκες ''Thrāikes''; la, Thraci) were an Indo-European speaking people who inhabited large parts of Eastern and Southeastern Europe in ancient history.. "The Thracians were an Indo-European people who occupied t ...

settlement of Skaplizo in Southwestern Bulgaria.

Location

Skaplizo Glacier is centred at . British mapping in 1972 and 2009.

Maps

British Antarctic Territory.
Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 61 54. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1972.
South Shetland Islands: Elephant, Clarence and Gibbs Islands.
Scale 1:220000 topographic map. UK Antarctic Place-names Committee, 2009.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.

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 of Bulgaria. The Commission approves Bulgarian place names in ...

. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)
Skaplizo Glacier

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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 ...

External links

Skaplizo Glacier.
Copernix satellite image Glaciers of Clarence Island (South Shetland Islands) Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{SouthShetlands-glacier-stub

Location

See also

Maps

References

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