Medven Glacier

Medven Glacier (Bulgarian: ледник Медвен, romanized: lednik Medven, IPA: [ˈlɛdnik ˈmɛdvɛn]) is a 2.5 km long and 1.5 km wide glacier on Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica situated east of Etar Snowfield, south of Urdoviza Glacier and north of Berkovitsa Glacier. It is bounded by the east slopes of Oryahovo Heights and drains eastwards into Prisoe Cove, Hero Bay between Remetalk Point and Agüero Point. Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009.

Medven Glacier
Location of Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands
Location of Medven Glacier in Antarctica Medven Glacier (Antarctica)
Location	Livingston Island South Shetland Islands
Coordinates	62°32′50″S 60°42′50″W
Length	1.3 nautical miles (2.4 km; 1.5 mi)
Width	0.8 nautical miles (1.5 km; 0.92 mi)
Thickness	unknown
Terminus	Prisoe Cove
Status	unknown

Medven Glacier from northern Friesland Ridge.

Topographic map of Livingston Island and Smith Island.

The glacier is named after the settlement of Medven in the eastern Balkan Mountains, Bulgaria.

Location

The glacier is centred at 62°32′50″S 60°42′50″W.

See also

• List of glaciers in the Antarctic
• Glaciology

Map

• L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4

References

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

External links

• Medven Glacier. Copernix satellite image

This article includes information from the Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria which is used with permission.