Agalina Glacier ( bg, ледник Агалина, lednik Agalina, ) is a long and wide glacier on
Pefaur (Ventimiglia) Peninsula
Pefaur (Ventimiglia) Peninsula is the heavily glaciated peninsula projecting 11 km in northwest direction from Danco Coast on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula. Bounded by Hughes Bay to the northeast and Charlotte Bay to the south, and separat ...
,
Danco Coast
The Danco Coast () is the portion of the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Sterneck and Cape Renard. This coast was explored in January and February 1898 by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Adrien de Gerlache, who named it ...
on the west side of
Antarctic Peninsula, situated east of
Poduene Glacier
Poduene Glacier ( bg, ледник Подуене, lednik Poduene, ) is the 3.3 km long and 2.4 km wide glacier on Pefaur (Ventimiglia) Peninsula, Danco Coast on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula, situated west of Agalina Glacier. I ...
and west of
Krapets Glacier
Krapets Glacier ( bg, ледник Крапец, lednik Krapets, ) is the 3.5 km long and 1.4 km wide glacier on Pefaur (Ventimiglia) Peninsula, Danco Coast on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula, situated east of Agalina Glacier and w ...
. It drains northwards, and flows into both
Graham Passage and the west arm of
Salvesen Cove.
The glacier is named after
Agalina Point on the
Bulgarian Black Sea Coast
The Bulgarian Black Sea Coast (), also known as the Bulgarian Riviera, covers the entire eastern bound of Bulgaria stretching from the Romanian Black Sea resorts in the north to European Turkey in the south, along 378 km of coast ...
.
Location
Agalina Glacier is centred at .
British
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mapping in 1978.
See also
*
List of glaciers in the Antarctic
Maps
* British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 60. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1978.
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. (details in Bulgarian
basic datain English)
Agalina Glacier.SCAR
Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
External links
Agalina Glacier.Copernix satellite image
Glaciers of Danco Coast
Bulgaria and the Antarctic
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